Molloy - Opening

I am in my mother's room. It's I who live there now. I don't know how I got there. Perhaps in an ambulance, certainly a vehicle of some kind.



Copyright 1955, 1956, 1958 by Grove Press, Inc.

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ISBN 0-8021-5091-8

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First Black Cat Edition 1965

Translated from the French by
Patrick Bowles
in collaboration with the author