Molloy is a novel by Samuel Beckett, published in 1955. It is written in two parts, the first narrated by Molloy, an elderly man of indeterminate age, with no job or relations; the second by Jacques Moran, an “agent” who is something like a private detective. Both men’s narrative voices are filled with indecisiveness and self-thwarting statements and obfuscations, so that it is not clear that either man is capable of achieving the ends he sets out toward. The major themes of the book are trials through suffering, redemption through purpose, and a kind of bleak, existential humor that makes the impossible situation of suffering in a bleak world bearable.
Samuel Beckett, whose play Waiting for Godot has influenced several generations of contemporary playwrights throughout the world, is a dramatist who considers himself a much better novelist. He thinks...
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Samuel Beckett is an Irishman who has lived in France since 1938 and who has written much of his drama and fiction in French. The phenomenal success of his play En attendant Godot (1952; published in ...
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When Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1969, the Swedish Academy stated that it was for "a body of work that in new forms of fiction and the theatre, has transmuted the desti...
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Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), the Irish novelist, playwright, and poet who became French by adoption, was one of the most original and important writers of the century. He won the Nobel Prize for litera...
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Biography EssaySamuel Beckett, whose play Waiting for Godot has influenced several generations of contemporary playwrights throughout the world, was a dramatist who considered himself a much better n...
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Samuel (Barclay) Beckett
Samuel Beckett