The goal of this work is to investigate a key moment in the work of the Irish poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist Samuel Ba rclay Beckett (1906-89), focusing on four works in prose written between 1945 and 1949, the novella First love , and the trilogy of novels Molloy , Malone dies , and The unnamable . The analysis seeks to articulate three main topics: subject, language, and world, accompanying the process of formal radicalization set forth by Beckett. In this universe, the subject is devoid of any agency, being subjugated by the power of language, which in its turn loses any referential power. Thus, narrative it self is questioned, insofar that speaking about the world and about the self becomes both an impossible and inevitable task. The narrator, which figures the subject in the novel, plays the part of a victim in the unstoppable torrent of autonomous language, and the act of writing becomes a mere attempt to escape which seeks to postpone the inevitable moment where he must finally speak about himself.