Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Molloy (1000 Books to Read)



I will watch this YouTube video to try to understand this absurd novel. I did not like it. Thankfully, it was shorter than many of the novels on the 1000 Books to Read List. 

Here is why James Mustich think you should read it:

Beckett's novel Molloy is a diptych of two long interior monologues that are part existential rumination, all shaggy dog story. By anatomizing thought and syncopating the progress of sentences with obsessive attention, Beckett creates a kind of awkward poise—an anomalous grace—on the stage of narrative. It is both precise and riveting, reveling in the humors and movements of language as it explores, with comic impulse and tragic obstinacy, “the crass tenacity of life and its diligent pains.”

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