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Murphy

Murphy

Beckett, Samuel

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Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 0802144454
ISBN13: 9780802144454
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Jan 11 2011
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

Murphy, Samuel Beckett's first published novel, is set in London and Dublin, during the first decades of the Irish Republic. The title character loves Celia in a striking case of love requited but must first establish himself in London before his intended bride will make the journey from Ireland to join him. Beckett comically describes the various schemes that Murphy employs to stretch his meager resources and the pastimes that he uses to fill the hours of his days. Eventually Murphy lands a job as a nurse at Magdalen Mental Mercyseat hospital, where he is drawn into the mad world of the patients which ends in a fateful game of chess. While grounded in the comedy and absurdity of much of daily life, Beckett's work is also an early exploration of themes that recur throughout his entire body of work including sanity and insanity and the very meaning of life.

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