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This book is the first comprehensive study of Beckett's novels that systematically uses postmodern psychoanalytic theory in China. Through the surface decadence and absurdity, it fully and deeply explains the mysteries in Beckett's novels that are difficult to elucidate with most other methodologies. It reveals the internal coherence and leap-forwardness of Beckett's novels, and believes that they present a spiral evolution from imitation to sublation, from "omniscience and omnipotence" to "ignorance and incompetence", from modernity to postmodernity, and from the outside to the inside. For the first time at home and abroad, this book provides a profound explanation of Beckett's so-called "failure" based on the text of the novel, and provides an original definition of his "failure" novels. This book fills the gaps in related domestic research in many aspects.