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THE sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. Read the first page
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Murphy,
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This review is from: Murphy (Paperback)
_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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Sex, Lies, and Gasjets,
By Robert Sarwin (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Murphy (Paperback)
What's most telling is the quote from Beckett to CD producer and San Quentin Drama Workshop Artistic Director, Rick Cluchey, "The book is full of lies." We should not forget that Beckett was teaching literature at Trinity College in Dublin immediately prior to his writing "Murphy" and the book is strewn with false literary and cultural references, the sort that one usually accepts at face value and passes over.The book starts out with Murphy tying himself, naked, arms and legs included, into a rocking chair. Where the third hand comes from to tie down both arms is the mystery. Is this the same third hand that turns the gas jet on when Murphy and Ticklepenny rig the gas line to the garrot? We can only imagine how an awkward and diminuitive man like Murphy, who is measured in almost every physical detail, continually has the finest women (from Miss Counihan to Celia) swooning over him so completely. "Murphy" is full of wry comic bits. It is perhaps Beckett's only novel where he uses accents. Irish, Chelsea, Scottish, Hindi, German, all to great comic effect. He has no fear of inventing words like "Panpygoptosis" or Duck's disease; and certainly, everyone should actually play the chess game that Murphy has with Mr. Endon, enlightening. There is so much in this recording to appreciate; it's more of a radio play than a reading and the acting is wonderful. These are some of the finest Irish and English voices going. They make the novel accessible, or much as can be with out some sort of complete and unabridged dictionary. But most enjoyable was the unabashed send up of the theosophy so prevalent in the first half of the 20th century. This one is worth listening to (and reading along with, if you're of a mind) over and over again. What a delight.
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Alas, i can only give it 5,
This review is from: Murphy (Paperback)
Garbage reviews, all of them. Even those on Beckett's side. Murphy is not a "transition" work. It is not immature. It is lapidiary, essential, unavoidable.
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