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Mercier and Camier
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Mercier and Camier, Beckett’s first postwar novel and his first in French, has been described as a forerunner of his most famous work, Waiting for Godot. Like the play, Mercier and Camier revolves around two wandering vagabonds. Their journey is described as relatively easy going, with no frontiers or seas to be crossed. The reader never knows where the journey starts or where it ends and the novel is less about the characters’ physical progress than their exchanges regarding the meaning of their journey, their goals, and life in general. One of Beckett’s more accessible works, Mercier and Camier is one of his early endeavors to experiment with structure and reimagine the novel as it had been known.
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“Beckett's writing feels like eating oatmeal with a few bits of raisins scattered throughout it. It may not always be an enjoyable reading experience, but it sticks with you and there are always a few delightful and insightful passages that feel like a little treat (hence raisins and not chocolate chips) in the midst of the plodding on of his story. Not that there is much of a story there to begin with. Beckett is more giving you an outline of a story and then delves more into the feel but in a very obtuse and abstract way.
Mercier and Camier is a story about two men who may or may not be in some type of romantic relationship who wander in and out of Dublin with no real purpose in mind. I guess it is about the waywardness of life and our relationships with people, but that is probably part of the allure of Beckett. His works certainly can provide hours of debate about just what Beckett was aiming for in his prose. Definitely not for those looking for a straightforward story, but not a bad text to dip your toes into the prose of Beckett.”
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