Dream of Fair to Middling Women

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).

Pe masura ce povestea incepe, Belacqua - o versiune tanara a lui Molloy, a carei dragoste este impartita intre doua femei, Smeraldina-Rima si mica Alba - „se lupta cu poftele sale si invata vocabularele si continentele, inainte de o„ recadere definitiva in Dublin ”' (New Yorker).