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Written by Samuel Beckett - Audio book performed by Sean Barrett & Dermot Crowley - Recorded at Motivation Sound Studios, London - Edited by Sarah Butcher - Unabridged Fiction - 7 COMPACT DISCS - 8 hours

Publisher, Naxos Audiobooks (September 2003)

Reviewing the first two volumes, Molloy and Malone Dies for The Irish Times, John Blanville said: "Remarkable. Please can we have The Unnamable!"

Written initially in French, later translating it into English, Molloy is the first book in Dublin-born Samuel Beckett’s trilogy. It was published shortly after WWII and marked a new, mature writing style, which was to dominate the remainder of his working life. Molloy is less a novel than a set of two monologues narrated by Molloy and his pursuer Moran. In the first section, while consumed with the search of his mother, Molloy lost everything. Moran takes over in the second half, describing his hunt for Molloy. Within this simple outline, spoken in the first person, is a remarkable story, raising the questions of being and aloneness that marks so much of Beckett’s work, but is richly comic as well. Beautifully written, it is one of the masterpieces of Irish literature. This is the world premiere recording. Written by a master dramatist, it is ideally suited to the audiobook medium.

Molloy was written as a separate novel, but is often regarded as the first part of the Beckett Trilogy, followed by Malone Dies and The Unnamable.