Narrative convention and exPectation lead us to conceive of Molloy's narrative as a chronologically consistent account of a single journey, the events of which -are causally, spatially lind temporally related to each other. Drawing -first upon the narration of the A and B episode, and then upon the evidence of the entire text, this article proposes that what Molloy relates is not, in fact, the story of a journey, nor of .!. journey, nor of a journey -to his mother, but is, rather, an achronic narrative organised according to the sylleptic theme of Molloy's permanent condition of journeying around the figure of his mother.