Review- Murphy

Murphy by Samuel Beckett

My rating: 1 of 5 stars


I enjoy Beckett's plays, but I found this novel to be unreadable. The writing is too dense and lacks beauty.

Also, I have a limited tolerance for the type of solipsistic protagonist on display in this book, who aims for sensory deprivation and annihilation. Why, I wonder, do some people imagine that 'the universe' owes them a meaning to exist? That has always struck me as tremendously arrogant. Other animals don't seem to need any kind of ultimate meaning.

Nor does such a belief very often lead to enjoyable books being written.



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