Uriah Marc Todoroff’s Reviews > Three Novels: Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable > Status Update
Uriah Marc Todoroff
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crazy that the genre conventions & characters of part 2 are more astonishing than the monologue of part 1. it's because of that context that they hit so hard: Molloy has characters?? a plot??
— Mar 20, 2025 08:23AM
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Uriah Marc Todoroff
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a few notes on Malone Dies: Molloy is set in a fantasyland (Ballyba); this one is technically more grounded (ref. to Bastille Day, London, modern airplanes, "fuck"). it might be darker. Molloy & Malone are both writers. Beckett famously tried to eradicate plot, but it remains: Sapo/Macmann must be in the same hospital as Malone. similar to Molloy/Jacques melding, at the end I wonder if Lemuel/Malone meld, too.
— Aug 10, 2025 02:41AM
Uriah Marc Todoroff
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finished Molloy. along with Bernhard's The Loser, this is way up there in my canon. I did not detect masculinity as a theme, even with the father/son dynamic (I only mention because I detect that theme everywhere). the work is not grounded in that way: it's Kafkaesque, fantasy; I can see how it was popular. even saying It's about mental illness isn't right, because the characters are basically goblins.
— Apr 06, 2025 07:47PM
Uriah Marc Todoroff
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description of sex is the first time i was able to lock into the text. description of the sucking stones is when i really began to pick up what he's putting down.
— Mar 04, 2025 01:06PM
