| Murphy Contributor(s): Beckett, Samuel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0714500429 ISBN-13: 9780714500423 Publisher: Riverrun Press (New York, NY) OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Calder Modern Classics |
| Physical Information: 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ficiton. MURPHY, when first published in 1938, was Beckett's first novel and third work of ficiton. Very Irish in the post-Joycean tradition, it nevertheless was the beginning of a new form of literary expression as some discerning critics recognized 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 has for many years been one of the most popular novels of one of the most seminal figures of the twentieth century. There's a sort of comfort in the dry, bare, language, in the spooky imagery and the incantatory repetitions... -- Howard Kinlay. |