Vivian Mercier (1919 - 1989) was an Irish literary critic. He is perhaps best known for his famous summation of the plot of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: "Nothing happens...twice." Ironically, despite what may sound like a somewhat disparaging criticism, Mercier was in actuality one of the foremost Beckett scholars of his day, and wrote extensively about Godot. He also wrote a critically acclaimed study of Beckett's work as a whole, Beckett/Beckett.

1989, the year of his death, was also the year of Beckett's death.

External links

• A very brief bio (http://homepage.tinet.ie/~writing/04.VivianMercier.html)