Edited by J. C. C. Mays 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 fiancee 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.
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