Abstract
In _Molloy_, _Malone Dies_, and _The Unnamable_, Samuel Beckett wrote not only of the relationship between man and the world he lives in, but also of the relationship between writer and literature. By reading the three novels alongside Maurice Blanchot’s literary essays, especially “From Anguish to Language”, “Literature and the Right to Death”, and “Orpheus’s Gaze”, we come to see how writing is inseparable from the idea of death and nothingness, and that when the writer writes, he is always struggling against the paradoxical demand of writing: of having nothing to say and yet feeling obliged to speak.