BOOKS 2021-a #The new library

"The sun shone, inevitably, on the new. Murphy sat outside it, as if he were free, in a dead end in West Brompton." Thus, in a sentence, Samuel Beckett puts us at the heart of the book's grotesque world, an existentialist parody that is

This tumultuous, total novel, evading all classification, is a literary bomb dropped at the turn of the 21st century, thirty years late. When his writing was over, all the major publishers in Italy refused to publish it, but years after the author's death, the book had a resounding success, translated into 15 languages, and has since been considered an exemplary of revolutionary feminist writing.