A novel in two parts, first written in French. In the first, Molloy, an aging, crippled vagrant, tells of his slow and confused journey to find his mother, losing his bicycle and his bearings along the way. In the second, a precise and fussy agent named Jacques Moran is sent to look for Molloy, and his own journey gradually unravels his certainties.
The book is a strange, darkly comic search story told in long, flowing sentences with little plot in the usual sense. It opens a trilogy and marks Beckett's mature style.
Quotes
Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto.
But is it true love, in the rectum? That’s what bothers me sometimes.
To restore silence is the role of objects.
There is something … more important in life than punctuality, and that is decorum.