Murphy by Samuel Beckett

3 sold in last 10 hours
€12.50
Zoom the image with the mouse

Murphy by Samuel Beckett

3 sold in last 10 hours
€12.50
ISBN:
9780571244584
Author:
Samuel Beckett
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Publication Date:
2009
Format:
Paperback

Murphy, Samuel Beckett's first novel, was published in 1938. Its work-shy eponymous hero, adrift in London, realises that desire can never be satisfie…

Adding to cart… The item has been added

Murphy by Samuel Beckett

€12.50
3 customers are viewing this product
  • Security Image 1
Description

Murphy, Samuel Beckett's first novel, was published in 1938. Its work-shy eponymous hero, adrift in London, realises that desire can never be satisfied and withdraws from life, in search of stupor. Murphy's lovestruck fiancée Celia tries with tragic pathos to draw him back, but her attempts are doomed to failure.

Murphy's friends and familiars are simulacra of Murphy, fragmented and incomplete. But Beckett's achievement lies in the brilliantly original language used to communicate this vision of isolation and misunderstanding. The combination of particularity and absurdity gives Murphy's world its painful definition, but the sheer comic energy of Beckett's prose releases characters and readers alike into exuberance.

You May Also Like

The House of the Dead & The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The House of the Dead & T...

MSRP: € 4,99

Translated by Constance Garnett with an introduction by Anthony Briggs. Dostoevsky's fascination for mental breakdown and violence (20 murders in his ...

Notes From Underground & Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Notes From Underground & ...

MSRP: € 4,99

With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa. Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehens...

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Idiot by Fyodor Dosto...

MSRP: € 4,99

Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction and Notes by Agnes Cardinal, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the Universit...

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

The Memory Police by Yoko...

Sale Price: Now: € 5,00
MSRP: € 12,50

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greate...

The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Karamazov Brothers by...

MSRP: € 4,99

Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction by A. D. P. Briggs. As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to dea...

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Lady Chatterley's Lover b...

MSRP: € 4,99

Notes and Introduction by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercours...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Moby Dick by Herman Melvi...

MSRP: € 4,99

With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of 'Po...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Br...

MSRP: € 4,99

Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially p...

 
 

Customers Also Liked

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Sale Price: Now: € 5,00
MSRP: € 11,25

The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is univ...

The Ghostlights by Grainne Murphy

The Ghostlights by Grainn...

MSRP: € 11,25

Can we ever truly escape our past? The Ghostlights is the poignant story of a family of Irish women who are each looking for the real meaning of home....

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations by Cha...

MSRP: € 4,99

Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallo...

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers by A...

MSRP: € 4,99

With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren. University of Kent at Canterbury. One of the most celebrated and popular historical romances ever writte...

Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

Resurrection by Leo Tolst...

MSRP: € 4,99

This powerful novel, Tolstoy's third major masterpiece, after War and Peace and Anna Karenina, begins with a courtroom drama (the finest in Russian li...

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

MSRP: € 4,99

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Kim is Rudyard Kipling's finest work. Now controversial,...

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

Sons and Lovers by D.H. L...

MSRP: € 4,99

Introduction and Notes by Dr Howard J. Booth, University of Kent at Canterbury. 'When you have experienced Sons and Lovers you have lived through the ...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Frankenstein by Mary Shel...

MSRP: € 4,99

Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story whi...

 
 
Bottom Banner