Murphy (novel)
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Murphy, first published in 1938, is an avant-garde novel, the third work of prose fiction by the Irish author and dramatist Samuel Beckett. The book was Beckett's second published prose work after the short-story collection More Pricks than Kicks (published in 1934) and his unpublished first novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women (published posthumously in 1992). It was written in English, rather than the French of much of Beckett's later writing. After many rejections, it was published by Routledge on the recommendation of Beckett's painter friend Jack Butler Yeats.
Author | Samuel Beckett |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Published | 1938 |
Publisher | Routledge |
The University of Reading bought the six notebooks which made up the manuscript for Murphy in July 2013.[1][2]