Beckett trilogy
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The Beckett trilogy is a landmark series of three interrelated novels by Samuel Beckett that trace the dissolution of narrative, identity, and language in a stark, minimalist style.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Beckett trilogy canonical | 1 |
| Beckett’s French trilogy | 1 |
| Beckett’s Trilogy | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Beckett trilogy Context triple: [Malone Dies, series, Beckett trilogy]
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A.
Beckett
Beckett is a surname most famously associated with Samuel Beckett, the Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, and Nobel Prize–winning author of "Waiting for Godot."
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B.
Beckett on Film: Footfalls
Beckett on Film: Footfalls is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Footfalls," featuring Billie Whitelaw in a stark, minimalist staging that emphasizes Beckett’s themes of memory, identity, and existential isolation.
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The Order of Things
The Order of Things is a seminal 1966 work of philosophy by Michel Foucault that analyzes how different historical periods have structured knowledge and the human sciences.
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The Baroque Cycle
The Baroque Cycle is a sprawling historical science-fiction trilogy by Neal Stephenson that blends 17th- and 18th-century politics, early modern science, cryptography, and adventure.
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E.
Red Riding trilogy
The Red Riding trilogy is a British crime drama television series of three films adapted from David Peace’s novels about police corruption and serial murder in Yorkshire during the 1970s and 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Beckett trilogy Target entity description: The Beckett trilogy is a landmark series of three interrelated novels by Samuel Beckett that trace the dissolution of narrative, identity, and language in a stark, minimalist style.
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A.
Beckett
Beckett is a surname most famously associated with Samuel Beckett, the Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, and Nobel Prize–winning author of "Waiting for Godot."
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B.
Beckett on Film: Footfalls
Beckett on Film: Footfalls is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Footfalls," featuring Billie Whitelaw in a stark, minimalist staging that emphasizes Beckett’s themes of memory, identity, and existential isolation.
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C.
The Order of Things
The Order of Things is a seminal 1966 work of philosophy by Michel Foucault that analyzes how different historical periods have structured knowledge and the human sciences.
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D.
The Baroque Cycle
The Baroque Cycle is a sprawling historical science-fiction trilogy by Neal Stephenson that blends 17th- and 18th-century politics, early modern science, cryptography, and adventure.
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E.
Red Riding trilogy
The Red Riding trilogy is a British crime drama television series of three films adapted from David Peace’s novels about police corruption and serial murder in Yorkshire during the 1970s and 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel trilogy ⓘ |
| author | Samuel Beckett ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
breakdown of narrative
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dissolution of identity ⓘ limits of language ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| explores |
failure of representation
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instability of self ⓘ relationship between voice and body ⓘ |
| firstPart | Molloy ⓘ |
| genre |
experimental fiction
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modernist fiction ⓘ philosophical novel ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Malone
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Molloy ⓘ unnamed narrator of The Unnamable ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Malone Dies
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Molloy ⓘ The Unnamable ⓘ |
| influenced |
absurdist fiction
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postmodern literature ⓘ |
| influencedBy | James Joyce ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
modernism
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postmodernism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | landmark of twentieth-century fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeTechnique |
first-person narration
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repetition and variation ⓘ self-reflexive narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
fragmented subjectivity
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radical narrative experimentation ⓘ unreliable narrators ⓘ |
| originalPublicationPeriod | 1947–1949 ⓘ |
| originalPublisher | Les Éditions de Minuit ⓘ |
| philosophicalContext |
absurdism
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existentialism ⓘ |
| publicationOrder |
Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable
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linked to:
Molloy
|
| secondPart | Malone Dies ⓘ |
| setting | unnamed locations ⓘ |
| style |
interior monologue
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minimalist ⓘ stream of consciousness ⓘ |
| thirdPart | The Unnamable ⓘ |
| translatedInto | English ⓘ |
| translator | Samuel Beckett ⓘ |
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