Results tagged “samuelbeckett”

“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.” From the first sentence, Beckett’s youngest and funniest novel, Murphy, proves to be so quintessentially Beckett that, as a friend aptly analogized over coffee one day this week: “It’s as if that sentence were Beckett’s body diced, dipped in bourbon, cured and later left to brew in hot water until some old expert could declare it, a perfect cup of something Beckett.”

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