Molloy by Samuel Beckett

Molloy by Samuel BeckettThen 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. 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. The narrative of Molloy, old and ill, remembering and forgetting, scarcely human,

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