The indissoluble couple Mercier and Camier repeatedly try to leave the city, which looks like Dublin. Where and why are they going? It seems that the characters themselves have no idea about the purpose of their journey. “Mercier and Camier” is the first French-language novel by Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize winner, the founder of the theater of the absurd. In his work, this novel is located exactly in the middle between early English-language prose and mature works in French. In “Mercier and Camier,” some of the techniques for conducting absurd dialogue that Beckett later uses in his play “Waiting for Godot” are already noticeable.