Book 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
Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. He was educated at
Portora Royal School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated
in 1927. His made his poetry debut in 1930 with Whoroscope and
followed it with essays and two novels before World War Two. He wrote
one of his most famous plays, Waiting for Godot, in 1949 but it wasn't
published in English until 1954. Waiting for Godot brought Beckett
international fame and firmly established him as a leading figure in
the Theatre of the Absurd. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature
in 1961. Beckett continued to write prolifically for radio, TV and the
theatre until his death in 1989.
