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Molloy is a novel by Samuel Beckett first written in French and published by Paris-based Les Éditions de Minuit in 1951. The English translation, published in 1955, is by Beckett and Patrick Bowles.
- Samuel Beckett
- 1951
Samuel Beckett: Molloy (Molloy) Molloy is the first in the trilogy that also includes Malone Dies and The Unnamable. All three were originally written in French and translated into English by the author.
Feb 19, 2011 · Beckett's Molloy was originally written in French and published in 1951. For Beckett, writing in French first was a way of distancing himself from the works of English contemporaries like Joyce, Eliot, and Woolf.
Molloy, the first of the three masterpieces which constitute Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy, appeared in French in 1951, followed seven months later by Malone Dies (Malone meurt), and two years later by The Unnamable (L’Innommable).
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Jun 19, 2014 · Read three times over the next couple of years, Molloy entirely changed my sense of what could be done with literature.
Book Reviews on... Molloy. by Samuel Beckett. Recommendations from our site. “The critic Wolfgang Iser pointed out the great, dynamic paradox of the novel. On the one hand, the world it describes—a confusing and confused reality confronted by a character who suffers from multiple and often nameless disabilities—is incredibly bleak.
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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.
- Samuel Beckett
