Introduction
Chapter One: Beckett and the Time Aporias
1.1 Proust: Beckett's conception of the time aporias
1.2 The "Real" Proust and Beckett's Proust
1.3 Introduction of Schopenhauer and Bergson to Proust
Chapter Two: Murphy: Reinstatement of the Time Aporias
2.1 The Shadow of Marcel.. the little world
2.2 The Time Cancer: the big world
2.2.1 Rule of Habit and Voluntary Memory
2.2.2 The Unidirectional Contrived Love in the big world
2.3 Impossible Reconciliation Between the two Worlds
2.3.1 The Possibility of Dichotomy
2.3.2 Attempts at Reconciliation in the Novel
2.3.3 The Futile Quest for the Involuntary Time
2.4 Narrative Time Structure of Murphy
2.4.1 The Holistic Narrative time: Narrative Determinism
2.4.2 The Mixed—up Narrative as a Result of Different Time Experience
Chapter Three: Watt : Time in its Pure Form
3.1 The Working Mechanism of a Clock
3.1.1 The Two Servants as Two Clock Hands
3.1.2 The Fable of Clock Time in Knott's House
3.1.3 The Reduction of Time to Figures
3.1.4 Music and the Clock Time: Pure Form of Music
3.2 The Clock out of Order
3.2.1 Mr. Knott: The Absent Central Point of the Clock
3.2.2 The Missing Substratum: the Persistent "Now"
3.2.3 The Anti—music Feature of Music in the Novel
3.3 The Clockwise Narrative Time
3.3.1 The Reshaped Circle of a Clock
3.3.2 Breakdown of the Narrative Time: No Configuration or Refiguration
3.3.3 Threefold Narrative Structure:The Unauthentic Narrator
Chapter Four: Molloy: the Quest for the Origin of Time
4.1 The Origin of Time
4.1.1 Mother of all Mankind: the Goddess of Time
4.1.2 The Quest for the Goddess of Time
4.1.3 The Paradox of Life and Death in the Goddess of Time
4.2 The fake Goddess in Lousse's house
4.2.1 The "Goddess" Lousse
4.2.2 A Replica of Knott's house
4.2.3 Love in the Lousse's House
4.3 Two Corresponding Failures: Molloy and Moran
4.3.1 The son as the body: Unborn or Rebirth?
4.3.2 Moran's Metamorphosis: to be Like Molloy
4.4 Immemorial Expatiation: Back to the Narrative Past
4.4.1 Narrative Time Of Moran's Narrative
Part: Change in Narrative Experience
4.4.2 Anti-narrative Time in Molloy's Narrative
Part: the Mythological Present
Chapter Five: Malone Dies: to Understand Time in Death
Chapter Six: The Unnamable: Time as "the Between"
Conclusion
Works Cited
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