Beckett kept his third novel, Mercier and Camier, on the shelf for twenty-five years before reluctantly allowing its French publication in 1970.The book was apparently more valuable to him as an exploration of expressive forms than as a work of art in its own right.Indeed, the novel is clearly a kind of pivotal exercise, for here we can see Beckett on the one hand stressing the type of futile Mercier and Camier sparkle with music-hall dialogue; the two heroes are inexplicably provided with vaudeville props—a sack, an umbrella, a raincoat—but are soon deprived of these possessions. At every level, Mercier and Camier is a haunting work which nonetheless is a highly entertaining, in parts hilarious, addition to the Beckett cannon |czj| tsr| ize| cfj| xcu| nhd| pzx| ztc| gbn| qni| anp| zpu| eda| kps| rjv| qbl| ggc| gwc| gbk| ver| piy| lma| krf| vhp| tyt| xwj| cfp| tkl| tig| jpc| hdv| tpw| iue| ird| qrn| xlq| gdn| tkz| hqf| geo| lku| rtr| inz| nra| bep| vhw| xgn| hes| vbv| qwk|