Molloy by Samuel Beckett

Author:Samuel Beckett [Samuel Beckett]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9780571266852
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2012-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

Appendix

The following three English translations of passages from the original French version of Molloy were all published prior to the first English-language edition of the novel (Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955). A fourth text, published under the title ‘Molloy’ in New World Writing, vol. 5 (New York: New American Library, [April] 1954), pp. 316–23, is not reproduced here, since, aside from being considerably shorter (running from ‘I am in my mother’s room’ to ‘all that between two suns abides and passes away’; pp. 3–12 in the present edition), it is almost identical to the one published in Merlin. Strictly speaking, the three texts are not ‘extracts’ from the English translation of the novel; rather, they are earlier versions of that translation as finally published in book form. A brief analysis of some of the significant differences between these texts and the corresponding passages in the Olympia Press edition is offered in the preface to the present edition, and the texts are reprinted here to give the reader an opportunity to consider these variations in full. Square brackets indicate editorial interventions, which have been kept to a minimum.

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