Dream Of Fair To Middling Women

Description for DREAM OF FAIR TO MIDDLING WOMEN by Samuel Beckett:

DREAM OF FAIR TO MIDDLING WOMEN offers a rare and revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. Later on, Beckett would call the novel the chest into which I threw all my wild thoughts. When he submitted it to several publishers, all of them found it too literary, too scandalous, or too risky, and it was sadly never published during his lifetime. In this stunning first novel, Belacqua a young version of Molloy, whose love is divided between two women, Smeraldina-Rima and Alba wrestles with his lusts and learning across vocabularies and continents, before a final relapse into Dublin, says the New Yorker. Youthfully exuberant and visibly influenced by Joyce, DREAM OF FAIR TO MIDDLING WOMEN is a work of extraordinary virtuosity. Beckett delights in the wordplay and sheer joy of language that mark his later work. Above all in this handsomely bound hardcover edition, the story brims with the black humor that, like brief stabs of sunlight, pierces the darkness of his vision.