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• W586956464 abstract "Mercier y Camier de Samuel Beckett Edicion, traduccion e introduccion de Jose Francisco Fernandez Malaga: Editorial Confluencias, 2013 168 pp. ISBN: 978-84-941691-8-2 After the Second World War, Samuel Beckett entered an extremely fruitful period of artistic production, taking a crucial decision in the development of his literary career: turning from the English language to French. The first extended text to emerge out of this decision was Mercier et Camier, written in 1946. Not finding an editor then and being later left aside by Beckett himself, the novel was not published until 1970. The English translation intermittently occupied Beckett from 1970 to 1974, when it finally came to light in John Calder's publishing house. The Spanish text under review here is the translation of Beckett's 1970 English version by Jose Francisco Fernandez, a leading scholar of Beckett, whose deep critical knowledge of the writer and insightful intimacy with the linguistic texture of his works are at the basis of a rigorous and engaging translation. This publication, furthermore, fills in a great gap in the field of Spanish translations of Beckett's oeuvre. Although in 1971, Feliz de Azua translated for Lumen the French text of Mercier et Camier, the translation of the English version had never been done, and both texts--the French and the English --constitute in fact two different works. As opposed to the critical tendency to regard Beckett's translated versions of his texts as almost identical twins with respect to the originals, Connor (1989) explains that whereas that is certainly so when the writing of the original and its translation took place in a more or less simultaneous manner, the two texts tend to reveal important differences when there was a long time gap between both acts. In the case of the two versions of Mercier and Camier, Beckett introduced elements in the English text that reinforced the Irish component, (1) but the most obvious difference is the amount of material that Beckett decided to cut out in the English translation: around 12% of the original French text. Connor points to the fact that many of these omissions relate to the two characters' links with the everyday world, so that the English text reinforces the effect of a narrative in which the protagonists are strangely cut off from ordinary people and objects. This narrative is certainly a strange story which tells of a journey by two tramp-like friends who walk around a city that resembles Dublin and get out of it, but only to return to it. In the meantime, they watch dogs copulating, meet odd characters in bars and other public places, have inconclusive conversations and continually worry about their possessions--a sack, an umbrella, a raincoat, a bicycle. The pair of characters, the tramps, the aimless journey, the attachment to ordinary objects or the absurd dialectical exchange: Mercier and Camier anticipates elements that will become central in later major works such as En attendant Godot (1952) or the texts of the Trilogy, Molloy (1951), Malone meurt (1951) and L'Innommable (1953), and that have come to be seen as quintessentially Beckettian ones. The novel is divided into 8 chapters, grouped into four sections, after each of which a Summary of two preceding or Resumen de los dos capitulos anteriores is provided in the form of a list: Comienzo. Encuentro de Mercier y Camier. Plaza de Saint-Ruth. El haya roja. La lluvia. ... (58) The Spanish edition includes an index that indicates this division into chapters and summaries, an added element that alerts the reader to an unexpected and baffling aspect fully in accordance with a strong metafictional dimension highlighted by the figure of the narrator. This narrative voice, which tells us of Mercier's and Camiers's actions, words, and even thoughts and feelings, is a detached and often impatient and irritated one that calls attention to the gap between action and account. …" @default.
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