Mercier and Camier

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Mercier and Carnier is a novel by Samuel Beckett. Written immediately before his celebrated trilogy of Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable, Mercier et Camier (1946, translated as Mercier and Camier in 1974) was Beckett's first attempt at extended prose fiction in French. It features the 'pseudocouple' of Mercier and his private investigator friend Camier, and their repeated attempts to leave a city (a thinly disguised version of Dublin) only to abandon their journey and return. A much-changed Watt makes a cameo appearance, bringing his stick down on a pub table and yelling 'Fuck life!'.


The Prose of Samuel Beckett
Novels : Dream of Fair to Middling Women, How It Is, Malone Dies, Mercier and Camier, Molloy, Murphy, The Unnamable, Watt
Novellas : Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho
Stories : First Love , Fizzles, More Pricks Than Kicks, Stirrings Still, Stories and Texts for Nothing
Non-Fiction : Three Dialogues (with Georges Duthuit and Jacques Putnam), Disjecta, Proust


[edit] External link

Keith Ridgway on Mercier and Camier The Guardian 19 July 2003


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