Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), one of the leading literary and dramatic figures of the twentieth century, was born in Foxrock, Ireland and attended Trinity University in Dublin. In 1928, he visited Paris for the first time and fell in with a number of avant-garde writers and artists, including James Joyce. In 1937, he settled in Paris permanently. Beckett wrote in both English and French, though his best-known works are mostly in the latter language. A prolific writer of novels, short stories, and poetry, he is remembered principally for his works for the theater, which belong to the tradition of the Theater of the Absurd and are characterized by their minimalist approach, stripping drama to its barest elements. In 1969, Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and commended for having "transformed the destitution of man into his exaltation." Beckett died in Paris in 1989.
At the age of seventy-six he said: "With diminished concentration, loss of memory, obscured intelligence... the more chance there is for saying something closest to what one really is. Even though everything seems inexpressible, there remains the need to express. A child need to make a sand castle even though it makes no sense. In old age, with only a few grains of sand, one has the greatest possibility." (from Playwrights at Work, ed. by George Plimpton, 2000)
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Waiting for Godot 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
“我们走吧。” “我们不能。” “为什么不能?” “我们在等待戈多。” ——-《等待戈多》 两个流浪汉等待一个没见过不认识的戈多,戈多没有来但等来一个他的信史的小男孩...
评分一个朋友来我公司蹭饭。聊来聊去,他说他不快乐。30啷当的年纪,一年十来万赚着。也没有重体力劳动,要劳其筋骨;放眼望去,也没有什么咄咄逼人的竞争者,让他首当其冲。娇妻有了,娇婴在盼。可是——为什么不快乐? 我回苏州来的这两年,总觉得不快乐象一种传染病,在社会流传...
评分《等待戈多》的主题,相较于它所颠覆了的西方戏剧传统显然更具开放性。人们可以认为,它展示了一个没有时间、循环往复的世界,或者意在说明“在人类存在中并不真的发生过什么”,再或者,它展示的是当代西方人在失去信仰及形而上追求后的荒诞世界中的尴尬处境。这些都对。连贝...
评分(一) 爱斯特拉贡 爱斯特拉贡是整本书第一个出场人物,然而他的出场方式却非常特别。在其他戏剧中首先是要介绍人物的外貌或者背景来给读者留下印象的,但是爱斯特拉贡的出场却是一个反复不停地“脱鞋”动作。而“脱鞋”这个动作贯穿了整个剧本,在这两幕的开头和结尾处都...
评分(一) 爱斯特拉贡 爱斯特拉贡是整本书第一个出场人物,然而他的出场方式却非常特别。在其他戏剧中首先是要介绍人物的外貌或者背景来给读者留下印象的,但是爱斯特拉贡的出场却是一个反复不停地“脱鞋”动作。而“脱鞋”这个动作贯穿了整个剧本,在这两幕的开头和结尾处都...
图书标签: 戏剧 SamuelBeckett Drama 贝克特 英文原版 爱尔兰 Irish 1950s
From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, Waiting for Godot has become of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. As Clive Barnes wrote, “Time catches up with genius … Waiting for Godot is one of the masterpieces of the century.”
The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone—or something—named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as mankind’s inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett’s language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existential post-World War II Europe. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.
“To all mankind they were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears! But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us... What are we doing here, THAT is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in this immense confusion one thing along is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come—“
评分"You don't know if you're happy or not?" "What do we do now, now that we are happy?" “I don't know why I don't know!"
评分The way I see it just for now, we are all waiting for Godot (or at least try to believe so). That's the way we live by, but ironically how we don't live on.
评分The way I see it just for now, we are all waiting for Godot (or at least try to believe so). That's the way we live by, but ironically how we don't live on.
评分"You don't know if you're happy or not?" "What do we do now, now that we are happy?" “I don't know why I don't know!"
Waiting for Godot 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书