The hero, Belacqua, a near enough alter-ego for the author, is a student in
Dublin is a student in Dublin with a messy love-life and a colourful series
of girlfriends.
The author's debt to James Joyce, whose circle in Paris he had recently
joined, is obvious in the exhuberance of the writing and the extravagant
use of many languages and word-play.
As the book progresses, however, the reader sees the young writer
developing his own distinctive voice, poetic about the Ireland he knew so
well - while realising he had to leave it - and taking literature in new
directions in search of a style that would convey his very personal view of
the human condition.
The celebrated Beckett humour crops up on nearly every page, although not
yet as sardonic as it would become. Erudite and complex, 'Dream of Fair to
Middling Women' is not recommended as an introduction to Beckett
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Beckett's signature fierceness and piercing insight into the lurching of the mind are already evident in this early yet adept, high-energy, and boisterously libidinous novel.
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