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Mercier and Camier is a novel by Samuel Beckett that was written in 1946, but remained unpublished until 1970. Appearing immediately before his celebrated "trilogy" of Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable, Mercier et Camier was Beckett's first attempt at extended prose fiction in French.
Novela olvidada en un cajón durante décadas, Mercier y Camier (1946) fue la primera obra que Samuel Beckett escribió en francés, y estilísticamente anticipa a su afamada trilogía, con la diferencia notable de que este pequeño libro es un derroche de humor.
Novela olvidada en un cajón durante décadas, Mercier y Camier (1946) fue la primera obra que Samuel Beckett escribió en francés, y estilísticamente anticipa a su afamada trilogía, con la diferencia notable de que este pequeño libro es un derroche de humor.
We do not have to read very far into Mercier and Camier to discover that the story as much concerns the narrator as the two eponymous heroes. With the first sentence the narrator thrice intrudes the first person pronoun, founding his own subjectivity on the adventures of the two characters: “The journey of Mercier and Camier is one I can tell ...
1 de ene. de 1970 · 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.”
The pair of characters, the tramps, the aimless journey, the attachment to ordinary objects or the absurd dialectical exchange: Mercier and Camier anticipates elements that will become central in later major works such as En attendant Godot (1952) or the texts of the Trilogy, Molloy (1951), Malone meurt (1951) and L’Innommable (1953), and ...
4 de oct. de 2012 · Mercier and Camier. Samuel Beckett. Faber & Faber, Oct 4, 2012 - Fiction - 117 pages. Written over three months in 1946, Mercier and Camier was Beckett's first post-war work, and his first...
