- The
- first
- of
- the
- three
- greatest
- novels
- by
- the
-
- era-defining
- Nobel
- laureate
- ,
- reissued
- for
- a
- new
- generation.I
- am
- still
- alive
- then.
- That
- may
- come
- in
- useful.Molloy,
- a
- sordid,
- bedridden
- vagrant,
- recalls
- a
- long
- bicycle
- ride
- in
- search
- of
- his
- mother.
- He
- describes
- sucking
- on
- stones,
- falling
- in
- love,
- getting
- arrested,
- killing
- a
- dog.
- Moran,
- a
- private
- detective,
- sets
- out
- to
- look
- for
- Molloy.
- But
- as
- Moran's
- physical
- and
- mental
- state
- deteriorate,
- his
- narrative
- starts
- to
- mirror
- Molloy's
- in
- mysterious
- ways.Molloy
- is
- the
- first
- of
- the
- three
- great
- novels
- Samuel
- Beckett
- produced
- during
- his
- 'frenzy
- of
- writing'
- in
- the
- late
- 1940s.
- The
- others
- are
- Malone
- Dies
- and
-
- The Unnamable.
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