Molloy: Introduced by Colm Tóibín - Couverture souple

Beckett, Samuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571386768 ISBN 13 : 9780571386765

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2025

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906 and graduated from Trinity College. He settled in Paris in 1937, after travels in Germany and periods of residence in London and Dublin. He remained in France during the Second World War and was active in the French Resistance. From the spring of 1946 his plays, novels, short fiction, poetry and criticism were largely written in French. With the production of En attendant Godot in Paris in 1953, Beckett's work began to achieve widespread recognition. During his subsequent career as a playwright and novelist in both French and English he redefined the possibilities of prose fiction and writing for the theatre. Samuel Beckett won the Prix Formentor in 1961 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969. He died in Paris in December 1989.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2025
• ISBN 10: 0571386768
• ISBN 13: 9780571386765
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible