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Binding: PaperbackEAN: 9780802150370 ISBN: 0802150373 Label: Grove Press Manufacturer: Grove Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: January 20, 1994 Publisher: Grove Press Studio: Grove Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 'Murphy', Samuel Beckett's first published novel, was written in English and published in London in 1938; Beckett himself subsequently translated the book into French, and it was published in France in 1947. The novel recounts the hilarious but tragic life of Murphy in London as he attempts to establish a home and to amass sufficient fortune for his intended bride to join him. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Postmodern GarbageI had to read this for class. The plot is all over the place and it is really boring. There is nothing memorable about this book and it is as mundane as watching a squirrel collect nuts for the winter...on second thought, watching a squirrel collect nuts for the winter is like going to Disney World when you are 4 years old compared to reading this book. I had to read this for English 196 and I can't wait to sell this back to the book store even though I got it on ebay...so in essence, selling ... Read More Rating:  - Comic-tragic masterpieceMurphy is a novel unlike any other. Quite deliberately, Beckett's characters are not portrayed with realistic fullness, and the plot is fragmented and incomplete. Nevertheless, this is an enjoyable read if conventional expectations are suspended. Beckett's early work is often compared to Joyce, but they are actually very different. Beckett's works are essentially tragic-comic. There is one passage that perfectly encapsulates the problem of desire: "I greatly fear," said Wylie, "that ... Read More Rating:  - Odd.My account of reading 'Murphy,' expurgated, accelerated, improved and reduced, gives the following. Page one: I grin, marvelling at Beckett's wit and his prehensile command of the English language. I pause, to scan a dictionary for some obscure little term (syzygy, anyone?). I pause again, to scan another dictionary for the same obscure little term. ('You cram these words into mine ears, against the stomach of my sense' -Shak.) I sigh, thoroughly vexed by the absurdities of the 'plot' ... Read More Rating: - the very bestthe very best Beckett book, hands down. the funniest thing--along with Kinsley Amis' "Lucky Jim"--ever in English. essential. sure it lives and moves under the spell of Joyce--who cares? can you name, other than Flaubert or James, a better master. masterly. so fun to re-read. Rating: - Murphy_Murphy_ is dark, funny, and ponderous. While most Beckett fans know _Waiting for Godot_, this novella takes more of a Modernist bent that differs from the anticipatory post-Modernism of _Godot_. Beckett's black humor prevails, and the intellectual quest for love and its concrete definition develops; this idea carries over from the Joycean tradition begun in _Ulysses_. 
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