"Molloy" is Samuel Beckett's best-known novel, and his first published work to b
e written in French, ushering in a period of concentrated creativity in the late
1940s which included the companion novels "Malone Dies" and "The Unnamable". Th
e narrative of Molloy, old and ill, remembering and forgetting, scarcely human,
begets a parallel tale of the spinsterish Moran, a private detective sent in sea
rch 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 certain
ties, at the tip of whoever is holding the pencil, and trades larger uncertainti
es 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
. It is edited by Shane Weller.
