I remember sitting in a lecture being taken by Steven Morrison. Im sure some of you have had classes with him also. He is one of the most engaging lecturers I have come accross at Holloway. Subsequently, I have always found his literary opinions particularly interesting, regardless of my agreement.
Having recently finished Beckett’s novel Molloy I am reminded of a passing statement of his from a lecture last term. Morrison said that the funniest writer he had ever read was Beckett. By this time I had become, fairly, familiar with a lot of Beckett, he being the subject of my dissertation (now coming to completion). But I couldn’t quite grasp how anything I had read would be described by anyone as “the funniest” literature they had ever read…in finishing Molloy I now understand.
If you would like to read a book that, is not only fascinating, but genuinely laugh inducing, then read Molloy. Books don’t make me laugh out loud, ever. I have always been able to appreciate books as funny, but that hasn’t ever really meant they have made me LOL, so to speak….Molloy did…often
Trust me when I say Beckett is more than the merely complicated, depressing and cryptic writer he is often given the stereotype of.
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