Molloy By Samuel Beckett – The First in the Trilogy of Genius
“I am still alive then. That may come in useful.”
The first of three era-defining novels by Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett, Molloy marks the beginning of his groundbreaking postwar trilogy—now reissued for a new generation of readers.
Molloy introduces us to a sordid, bedridden vagrant who recalls, with absurd precision, a long and meandering bicycle journey in search of his mother. Along the way, he sucks on stones, falls into strange loves, gets arrested, and kills a dog. His account is followed by that of Moran, a private detective sent to track him down. But as Moran’s mission unfolds, his body and mind begin to unravel, and his narrative eerily begins to echo Molloy’s own.
Written during Beckett’s intense “frenzy of writing” in the late 1940s, Molloy stands alongside Malone Dies and The Unnamable as a cornerstone of modern literature—a haunting, darkly comic meditation on identity, memory, and the meaning (or meaninglessness) of existence.
Physical Info: 4.33 x 0.94 x 7.01 inches | 304 Pages | Paperback
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