Samuel Beckett: Molloy [2009] paperback MYTHS spiralling back seconds

spiralling back seconds

William Trevor's brilliant novel explores the small horrors that lie close to the surface of ordinary life

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Samuel Beckett: Molloy [2009] paperback MYTHS spiralling back secondsMolloy 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