Molloy is divided into two sections In the first section, Molloy goes in search of his mother In the second, he is pursued by Moran, a private detective Spoken in the first person, the novel raises the questions of being and aloneness that marks so much of Bekckett's work Molloy was written as a separate novel, but is often regarded as the first part of the Beckett trilogy, followed by Malone Dies and The Unnamable