Functions of the novelistic object in Beckett's first trilogy

Beckett's first trilogy dissociates the inventory from the stories, thus challenging the status of the objects and disrupting all their usual functions. Are they props, attributes, clues, objects of an exchange or a quest, objects of knowledge? None of these qualities are ever confirmed. Ultimately, the failure of any referential illusion reduces the inventory to a nomenclature, and the story to a narrativisation of that list. Nevertheless, as language cannot eliminate the signified, the abstract novel remains unachievable - for the thing always resurfaces behind the nothing.