About this title: Few works of contemporary literature are so universally acclaimed as central to our understanding of the human experience as Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett's famous trilogy. "Molloy," the first of these masterpieces, appeared in French in 1951. It was followed seven months later by "Malone Dies" and two years later by "The Unnamable." All three have been rendered into English by the author.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1994-01-18
ISBN-13:9780802150912ISBN:0802150918
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Grove Pr
Date Published: 1995-11-01
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing
Date Published: 2000
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780802150912ISBN:0802150918
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780802150912ISBN:0802150918
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780802150912ISBN:0802150918
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 414 p. Audience: General/trade. Three Novels by Samuel Beckett-absolutely marvelous! ! read more
"Despite only giving this book three stars I really enjoyed parts of it. I think the absence of a traditional plot in each of the novels alienated me enough to make me uncomfortable with my ability to read this. The structure makes it read a little like poetry, a little like philosophy which make it's ideas extremely interpretive.
This being said, I thought the creation of the narrative voice in each novel was almost perfect. As someone who greatly enjoys stream of consciousness writing, I thought this was a striking example and carried out in ways that make it seem more plausible than almost anything that I've read. It really was a darkly beautiful book that I recommend to anyone that is up for a bit of a challenge."
"saw this from another reviewer, who gave it 5 stars: "having been influenced heavily by Joyce and Proust, Beckett sets out to destroy every convention and form of thought available to language, so that we are left with plotless, settingless, and even characterless stories that nonetheless explore the despair and consciousness of what it means to be alive."
This pretty much sums it up for me. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood, but man I trudged through this book, and only made it through the first of the 3 stories. Plotless, settingless and characterless is right, despair...spot on.
Maybe I'll try some other Beckett, but doubt that I'll ever be coming back to this one. We'll see."
"This review is for those who often have stream-of-consciousness thoughts in their own heads and are thinking of reading Molloy. All others continue on.
Read this book if your mind is on constant RSS mode, the sort of thinking where one thing flows directly into the next without pausing to consider its aim or the importance of the connection, the sort of thing they call "racing thoughts" in some places you choose not to think about, where your mind devours letters like firewood and makes nothing of great bricks like the other book (infinite jest) i started around the same time as this one and subsequently dropped as soon as i rediscovered punctuation or full stops because the moment i stopped thinking in this manner,
i would begin to take breaths between sentences. And right about the time i started to make sense in everyday conversation again, his writing was no longer able to hold my focus for longer than a paragraph or two.
There are a lot of beautiful moments in Molloy. This is poetry, really, "I must have been on top, or on the slopes, of some considerable eminence, for otherwise how could i have seen, so far away, so near at hand, so far beneath, so many things, fixed and moving." Though much of what i read was shot with bleakness and anger and stink, the words are lyrical and much of it felt familiar. "To know ... the laws of the mind perhaps, of my mind, that for example water rises in proportion as it drowns you." When my thoughts were a constant narration of every emotion and wonder, Beckett was a comrade. His constant stringing along of words, you can read several minutes before coming to a paragraph break, echoed my own thinking and it was easy to let myself be pulled along. It was a relief, a reassurance.
I like him still but it was so much easier when we were on the same page."
"I found this book... painful. I think Beckett was entirely successful in his aim (as I see it) to reduce meaning to it's lowest levels (that is, to attempt to mean nothing at all and prove that we can't stop making sense), to disturb and alienate his readers, and to replicate the experience of consciousness. Unfortunately, his skill at delivering his vision made these stories unreadable for someone who loves meaning, beauty, and flow. A work of art, to be sure! But not to my liking."
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