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'The sunlight shone, having no choice, on the nothing new.' So starts Murphy, Samuel Beckett's first novel, publicized in 1938. Its work-shy eponymous hero, adrift in London, realises that desire can't ever be satisfied and withdraws from life, searching for stupor. Murphy's lovestruck fiancée, Celia, tries with tragic pathos to attract him again, but her efforts are doomed to failing. In Dublin, Murphy's friends and familiars are simulacra of him, fragmented and incomplete. They come to London searching for him. Under pressure from Celia to obtain a job, Murphy sees a post as a nurse in a mental institution, Magdalen Mental Mercyseat. Beckett's accomplishment in this early on work lies in the brilliantly original vocabulary used to talk his singular eyesight of isolation and misunderstanding. The blend of particularity and absurdity offers Murphy's world its unpleasant definition, but the large comic energy of Beckett's prose produces characters and listeners equally into exuberance. It really is read with verve and familiarity by Stephen Hogan.

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