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Há 1 dia · Samuel Beckett, trans. from the French by the author Mercier and Camier (New York: Grove Press, 1974) Written originally in 1946, Beckett's first novel after World War II did not have an easy time of getting to press.
Mercier and Camier. One of the most accessible examples of Samuel Beckett’s dark humor, Mercier and Camier is the hilarious chronicle of its two heroes’ epic journey. While their travels are fraught with complications and intrigue, Mercier and Camier at least “did not remove from home, they had that good fortune.”.
Mercier and Camier certainly anticipates the failure, impotence, ignorance and dissolution that are going to become prevalent in later works. It is a pivotal work that, both in thematic and stylistic terms, works as a bridge between Beckett’s early and late production, and that is central in order to come to terms with the implications of Beckett’s momentous decision to adopt the French ...
Mercier and Camier. Mercier and Camier, Beckett’s first postwar novel and his first in French, has been described as a forerunner of his most famous work, Waiting for Godot. Like the play, Mercier and Camier revolves around two wandering vagabonds. Their journey is described as relatively easy going, with no frontiers or seas to be crossed.
Mercier and Camier, Beckett's first postwar novel and his first in French, has been described as a forerunner of his most famous work, Waiting for Godot. Like the play, Mercier and Camier revolves around two wandering vagabonds. Their journey is described as relatively easy going, with no frontiers or seas to be crossed.
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Mercier and Camier. Written over three months in 1946, 'Mercier and Camier' was Beckett's first post-war work, and his first novel in French. He came to regard it as a practice piece, and set it aside to write his trilogy. The novel was finally published in 1970, and in Beckett's English translation four years later.
"Two seedy stumblebums named Mercier and Camier, forerunners of Estragon and Vladimir of Waiting for Godot, set out on a mysterious journey through vaguely Irish scenery.
