Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable: A Trilogy; Introduction by Gabriel Josipovici-Fast Shipping

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The first novel of Samuel Beckett’s mordant and exhilaratingmidcentury trilogy introduces us to Molloy, who has been mysteriously incarcerated,and who subsequently escapes to go discover the whereabouts of his mother. In thelatter part of this curious masterwork, a certain Jacques Moran is deputized by anonymousauthorities to search for the aforementioned Molloy. In the trilogy’s second novel,Malone, who might or might not be Molloy himself, addresses us with his ruminationswhile in the act of dying. The third novel consists of the fragmented monologue–delivered,like the monologues of the previous novels, in a mournful rhetoric that possessesthe utmost splendor and beauty–of what might or might not be an armless and leglesscreature living in an urn outside an eating house. Taken together, these three novelsrepresent the high-water mark of the literary movement we call Modernism. Withintheir linguistic terrain, where stories are taken up, broken off, and taken up again,where voices rise and crumble and are resurrected, we can discern the essential lineamentsof our modern condition, and encounter an awesome vision, tragic yet always compellingand always mysteriously invigorating, of consciousness trapped and struggling insidethe boundaries of nature.