Dream of Fair to Middling Women

Dream of Fair to Middling Women: Samuel Beckett
de Samuel Beckett

272 pp.
Faber & Faber, 2020
9780571358052

As the story begins, Belacqua - a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and the little Alba - 'wrestles with his lusts and learning across vocabularies and continents, before a final "relapse into Dublin"' (New Yorker).