by Samuel Beckett
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by James Winny
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by Thomas Pynchon
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by Samuel Beckett
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by W Wordsworth
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A poor Irishman, seeking his own identity, drifts through worsening stages of despair until his final disintegration.
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Murphy, when first published in 1938, was Beckett's first novel and third work of fiction. Very Irish in the post-Joycean tradition, it nevertheless was the beginning of a new form of literary expression as some discerning critics recongnized at the time, drawing heavily on the author's time spent in London as a young man, and especially on his experiences as a male nurse.
A poor Irishman, seeking his own identity, drifts through worsening stages of despair until his final disintegration.
From the Back Cover
Murphy, when first published in 1938, was Beckett's first novel and third work of fiction. Very Irish in the post-Joycean tradition, it nevertheless was the beginning of a new form of literary expression as some discerning critics recongnized at the time, drawing heavily on the author's time spent in London as a young man, and especially on his experiences as a male nurse.
It is also a comic masterpiece, full of the grim humour that had characterized his earlier More Pricks Than Kicks, and of little perceptions that cause the reader to stop and ponder or chuckle, rabelaisian in its bawdy, tragic in its relentlessly grim view of modern life. It has for many years been one of the most popular novels of one of the most seminal figures of the twentieth century. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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