Intertextuality in Beckett's and Agaoglu's Work

In her article "Intertextuality in Beckett's and Agaoglu's Work" Elmas Sahin discusses Adalet Agaoglu's 1973 novel Olmeye Yatmak (Lying Down to Die) and Samuel Beckett's 1950 Malone Dies in terms of intertextuality. Sahin employs tenets of comparative literature in order to analyze the two texts with regard to form and content and focuses on the on protagonists' worlds. In Sahin's interpretation, Agaoglu's protagonist Aysel is narrated in postmodern intertextuality as an individual of our days alienated from society, searching for her self/selves as she cannot succeed in dying. Both Beckett's and Agaoglu's protagonists attempt to "escape" from their selves and are alienated from the world and their environments and thus they represent postmodern narration.