Molloy
Book 1 of Molloy
Language: English
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: Dec 15, 2012
Words:
100158
Flesch:
91.08
DDC:
843.914
FAST Tags:
French fiction,
English fiction,
Tramps,
Private investigators,
Murder--Investigation,
French drama,
English fiction--Irish authors,
Mothers and sons
LCC:
PQ2603.E378
LC Genre:
Book Details
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Description:
Molloy is Samuel Beckett's best-known novel, and his first published work to be written in French, ushering in a period of concentrated creativity in the late 1940s which included the companion novels Malone Dies and The Unnamable. The narrative of Molloy, old and ill, remembering and forgetting, scarcely human, begets a parallel tale of the spinsterish Moran, a private detective sent in search of him, whose own deterioration during the quest joins in with the catalogue of Molloy's woes. Molloy brings a world into existence with finicking certainties, at the tip of whoever is holding the pencil, and trades larger uncertainties with the reader.
Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
Edited by Shane Weller