Mandel’s Reviews > Malone Dies > Status Update

As I recently did with Molloy, I'm re-reading this to teach it in a seminar. This time, I've dug especially deep into the first few pages, which introduce Malone's way of understanding why he's writing this remarkable deathbed text. The notion of storytelling as a way to escape self-preoccupation (as Malone says it, a way of avoiding 'watching himself die') and face death with equanimity is incredibly rich.