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- W653623749 abstract "The publication of Molloy in 1951 by the Editions de Minuit made Beckett an acclaimed new voice in French literature. In this essay, situate the novel in relation to postwar testimonies and the major movements in the literary field - the politically committed and the experimental - and examine the promotional strategies and critical reception it received on its first publication.En 1951 la publication de Molloy aux Editions de Minuit a fait de Beckett une voix acclamee de la litterature francaise. Dans le present essai, je situe son roman par rapport aux temoignages d'apres-guerre et aux principaux mouvements dans le champ - la litterature politiquement engagee et la litterature experimentale -, et j'examine les strategies de la promotion et de la reception au moment de sa publication.who could tell the tale[...]of the world's woes?nothingnessin words enclose?Beckett, WattFor the Editions de Minuit's Jerome Lindon, discovering Molloy was the event of his life as a publisher (qtd. in Simonin, 297); a decade later after falling under its spell in a graduate seminar on the nouveau roman ('new novel') it was to haunt me for the rest of my scholarly life. The spell still holds of Molloy'' s wild poetry and humor in the face of terrors and obligations - hailing from outside, inside, above, and below - its intermingling of the chaos and order of a divided mind and its unraveling of identity in the direction of namelessness and wordlessness into an enwombing and entombing in which the text finds its origin. Beckett would appear to have anticipated the always renewed stabs by critics to understand Molloys complexities, discontinuities, textual mirrors, and hidden allusions by nesting into his novel Moran's rapturous conclusion about the incomprehensible dance of his bees. Producing a text that encourages making sense of what cannot be made sense of is, of course, also a brilliant ploy to get your work talked about endlessly. The novel begins at the end with one of the most hilarious opening sections ever composed, by an unknowing and abject narrator, who, finding himself pressed by the obligation to write, writes only to unwrite. Each of the two parts into which the text is subsequently divided, one mirroring the other, but darkly and distortedly, ends as the chronicling of the failed quests of Molloy-Moran - the two poles into which the narrator is split - is about to begin. It is at this point too that they annul their human identity and the words that enslave them: I have been a man long enough, shall not put up with it any more is Moran's conclusion in the novel's final paragraph (1955, 175). Important for the focus of the present article and a clue to the novel's 'ahumanism' is the reappearing bicycle - one of the fitting emblems of the novel's bi-cyclical structure - which functions as a displaced reference (in the Freudian sense) to World War EL1 Moran's taunting question to his son: Who is this bicycle for [...] Goering? (1955, 143) is enough to have the War come to mind as a reminder of what led Beckett and others to interrogate the writer's role and chip away at the humanistic past.2Postwar TestimoniesWhen Beckett wrote Molloy in 1947, it was only two years since the end of one of the most abhorrent and bloody wars in history. Fresh in his and the public's memory would have been the over sixty million casualties worldwide, the majority of which civilian, including millions of victims of vicious ethnic, social, and political persecution; the unspeakable horrors of the Shoah; the torture, execution, or deportation of political resistors; dire depravations, bombed-out cities, and the terrorinducing nuclear conflagrations at the end of the War. After the Liberation of France and stretching on into the postwar years, official and unofficial purges set French against French, as those who had chosen noncooperation with the Nazi occupiers and the Vichy regime sought to punish all suspected of collaboration. …" @default.
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- W653623749 title "Becketts Molloy in the French Context" @default.
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