Three Novels: Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable
Other by Samuel Beckett read by Barry McGovern
Released 2006
Tracklist
- CD 1: Molloy I CD 1
- 1I am in my mother’s room.3:32
- 2This time, then once more I think, …1:40
- 3So I saw A and C going slowly …4:17
- 4He looks old and it is a sorry sight …4:14
- 5But that is not, I mean my hand, …2:47
- 6From things about to disappear …3:05
- 7So I doubtless did better, …4:16
- 8Now of all the noises that night …2:11
- 9But talking of the craving …3:54
- 10My mother never refused to see me, …5:24
- 11I should add, before I get down …2:27
- 12I was out of sorts. They are deep, …4:59
- 13At the police station I was haled …3:35
- 14And suddenly I remembered …3:44
- 15It was late afternoon when they …4:32
- 16They were watching me through …6:16
- CD 2: Molloy I CD 2
- 1That night was not like the other …5:08
- 2The glorious, the truly glorious …5:39
- 3Unable to remember the name …3:40
- 4There emanated such tedium …4:32
- 5Someone was poking the dog …6:34
- 6She ushered me into the drawing room …4:52
- 7I must have fallen asleep …5:44
- 8That moon then, all things considered …4:26
- 9The next day I demanded my clothes …4:15
- 10But that there were natural causes …6:00
- 11So I put my clothes on, having first …4:55
- 12But none the less from time to time …7:03
- CD 3: Molloy I CD 3
- 1Now as to telling you why …3:54
- 2My bicycle had disappeared again …6:52
- 3Now with regard to my food …4:00
- 4Could a woman have stopped me …5:28
- 5She must have been a woman …5:14
- 6Long before dawn this lodging house …5:40
- 7People were hastening angrily …6:42
- 8And while saying to myself that …5:39
- 9Morning is the time to hide …4:33
- 10But in order to blacken a few more …4:59
- 11It was obvious that by increasing …5:07
- 12Pausing then, and concentrating …5:58
- CD 4: Molloy I CD 4
- 1It was a wild part of the coast …6:29
- 2Let us try and get this dilemma clear …4:31
- 3And though it is no part of my tottering …7:16
- 4Bristling with boils ever since …5:12
- 5The forest was all about me and …4:58
- 6The shock knocked me down …4:51
- 7For I have greatly sinned, at all times …3:29
- 8But I also said, yet a little while …5:52
- 9And now, let us have done. Flat on my …5:48
- CD 5: Molloy II CD 5
- 1It is midnight. The rain is beating …3:34
- 2A man came into the garden and walked …5:23
- 3It was too late for mass. I did not need …4:55
- 4I got up and went to the kitchen …5:17
- 5The sun’s beams shone through …5:52
- 6I had nothing else to say to him …3:58
- 7I went up to my room again …5:39
- 8I got up and went to the window …5:24
- 9The agent and the messenger …6:03
- 10My weekly supply of lager …5:32
- 11I still had a few hours left before the dinner.4:02
- 12Molloy, or Mollose, was no stranger to me …3:43
- 13I knew then about Molloy, without …5:22
- CD 6: Molloy II CD 6
- 1Two remarks. Between Molloy …3:58
- 2Jacques was scarlet in the face …2:33
- 3I looked at my son. He had his mouth …5:58
- 4An acute pain shot through my knee.4:34
- 5Before going into my son’s room …5:31
- 6Finding my spirits as low in the …5:26
- 7My son could only embarrass me. …3:08
- 8I looked round for the last time …6:17
- 9In the lane, having locked …4:28
- 10It was summer holidays …4:37
- 11I have no intention of relating …5:34
- 12By the Molloy country I mean …3:49
- 13Some twenty paces from my …3:40
- CD 7: Molloy II CD 7
- 1I gave fitful thought, while basking …5:23
- 2One night, having finally succeeded …4:11
- 3The sky was that horrible colour …2:36
- 4Did you have a good night? I said.6:15
- 5I looked at my watch. It was ten o’clock …6:13
- 6The day seemed very long.6:21
- 7But when I woke it was day again …6:10
- 8It was evening. I had lit my fire …5:21
- 9I do not know what happened then …4:36
- 10But I did not go far. For I soon …4:07
- 11So this third day wore away. For I soon …4:12
- 12We went down the road. It was more …3:46
- CD 8: Molloy II CD 8
- 1In this way we came to Ballyba …7:51
- 2That night I had a violent scene …3:19
- 3I was therefore alone, with my bag …4:18
- 4It was evening. I had just crawled …6:35
- 5That night I set out for home …4:39
- 6Certain questions of a theological …4:21
- 7But before I launch my body …5:33
- 8Then there are the clothes I cleave …6:11
- 9It was evening. I was waiting quietly …4:51
- 10Now I may make an end …6:48
- CD 9: Malone Dies CD 1
- 1I shall soon be quite dead at last …4:12
- 2This time I know where I am going …7:46
- 3Present state. This room seems to be mine …6:46
- 4Not only am I left here, but I am looked after …6:26
- 5The man’s name was Saposcat. Like his father’s …6:46
- 6What tedium. And I call that playing …5:24
- 7Sapo loved nature, took an interest …7:07
- 8We are getting on. Nothing is less like me …7:58
- 9The market. The inadequacy of the …4:54
- 10I told myself too that I must make better …6:04
- CD 10: Malone Dies CD 2
- 1The Lamberts. The Lamberts found it …4:32
- 2The son, or heir, was a great strapping …3:00
- 3In the filthy kitchen, with its earth floor …7:43
- 4And so he went, all unsuspecting …4:31
- 5When I stop, as just now, the noises …7:57
- 6I fear I must have fallen asleep again …5:01
- 7The summer holidays were drawing to a close …3:58
- 8The Lamberts. One day Sapo arrived …7:22
- 9Now that it was dark again in the kitchen …5:52
- 10What tedium. If I went on to the stone …9:50
- 11There is naturally another possibility …7:48
- CD 11: Malone Dies CD 3
- 1What misfortune, the pencil must have …5:24
- 2And while I was busy pursuing my pencil …6:59
- 3I have taken a long time to find him again …6:33
- 4The hat, as hard as iron, superbly domed …8:28
- 5And if as suggested it is dusk, then …6:04
- 6I feel I feel it’s coming …7:42
- 7But let’s leave these morbid matters …7:31
- 8Caught by the rain far from shelter Macmann …7:27
- 9And there comes the hour when nothing …6:06
- 10And it must be presumed that he received …8:42
- CD 12: Malone Dies CD 4
- 1Quick quick my possessions …8:05
- 2I wonder what my last words will be …7:38
- 3My photograph. It is not a photograph …8:42
- 4I have lost my stick. That is the outstanding …5:36
- 5One day, much later, to judge by his appearance …4:30
- 6It seemed probable to Macmann that he was …6:35
- 7This first phase, that of the bed, was …8:23
- 8I am lost. Not a word. Inauspicious beginnings …4:38
- 9Moll. I’m going to kill her. She continued …4:53
- 10A last effort. Lemuel have the impression …4:42
- CD 13: Malone Dies CD 5
- 1I have had a visit. Things were going too well …7:26
- 2Standing by the bed he watched me …6:41
- 3When he had gone I said to myself …7:28
- 4Wearing over his long shirt a great striped cloak …6:37
- 5Try and go on. The pure plateau air …8:18
- 6On one morning Lemuel, putting in the …7:20
- 7In the third a small thin man was pacing up and …5:53
- 8The waggonette. Up on the box, beside the …5:32
- 9The island. A last effort. The islet. The shore …6:42
- CD 14: The Unnamable CD 1
- 1Where now? Who now? When now? …8:18
- 2Were I not devoid of feeling his beard would …9:19
- 3It would help me, since to me too I must …6:35
- 4The other advances full upon me …5:16
- 5Air, the air, is there anything to be squeezed …6:46
- 6I hope this preamble will soon come to an end …5:31
- 7I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes …7:56
- 8Let us then assume nothing, neither that I …6:42
- 9Decidedly Basil is becoming important, I’ll call him …7:50
- 10So many prospects in so short a time …7:14
- CD 15: The Unnamable CD 2
- 1But one more suggestion before I forget …6:41
- 2Mahood himself nearly codded me more than once …7:20
- 3He’ll never reach us if he doesn’t get …7:37
- 4When I penetrate into that house, if I ever do …6:43
- 5Finally I found myself, without surprise …7:33
- 6There is no use denying, no use harping on …6:31
- 7Yes, it was fatal, no sooner had the …6:55
- 8If I have a warm place, it is not in their hearts …6:49
- 9I like this colourful language, these bold …6:52
- 10It’s a question of voices, of voices to keep …6:51
- 11Worm, I don’t like it, but I haven’t much …7:41
- CD 16: The Unnamable CD 3
- 1It is the hour of the aperitif, already people …7:27
- 2When Mahood I once knew a doctor …7:08
- 3It is cold, this morning it snowed …6:54
- 4Worm, be worm, you’ll see, it’s impossible …6:58
- 5I’m worm, that is to say I am no longer he …7:16
- 6We must first, to begin with, go back to his …7:10
- 7It’s a starting point, he’s off, they don’t …6:52
- 8They look, to see if he has stirred …7:04
- 9Yes, so much the worse, he knows it is …8:09
- 10Currish obscurity, to thy kennel, hell‐hound …6:50
- CD 17: The Unnamable CD 4
- 1But what calm, apart from the discourse …6:34
- 2In any case they are easy, rightly or wrongly …5:07
- 3But this is my punishment, my crime is my …6:20
- 4Or worm, good old worm, perhaps he won’t …6:49
- 5I myself am exceptionally given to the tear …6:51
- 6As far as I personally am concerned there is …6:32
- 7And it’s not over. For here comes another …6:24
- 8How all comes right in the end to be sure …3:39
- 9Moreover, that’s right, link, link, you never know …7:25
- 10No point either, in your thirst, your hunger …13:20
- CD 18: The Unnamable CD 5
- 1But I really mustn’t ask myself any more questions …6:20
- 2There I am in any case equipped with eyes …6:46
- 3Even if there were things, a thing somewhere …6:10
- 4As to believing I shall go silent for good and all …5:09
- 5Help, help, if I could only describe this place …5:29
- 6No, I won’t do it, what won’t I do …6:08
- 7He must have travelled, he whose voice …8:20
- 8They love each other, marry, in order to love …5:38
- 9But when it falters and when it stops …6:52
- 10The place, I’ll make it all the same …8:19
More by Samuel Beckett, Barry McGovern
Release credits
- spoken vocals, spoken vocals
- photography
- recording
- writer
- producer
Issues
T2006