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)
发表于2024-05-10
Waiting for Godot 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
贝克特的文字是一堵墙。 密闭的空间,思想是幻象,荒诞才是真实。 他把自己反锁在房间内,静默在椅子上,钻进自己的身体,从自己的内部寻找出口,这些出口简化为各种感官感受的指代:听觉,视觉,触觉。这样的典型场景也出现在培根的画面中,所以说,培根的画面是躁动不安的。...
评分爱尔兰剧作家萨缪尔•贝克特的剧作《等待戈多》,公演伊始便成为荒诞派戏剧的扛鼎之作。在剧中,贝克特没有向我们展示激烈的戏剧冲突、引人入胜的情节,甚至没有塑造任何具有魅力的舞台角色——作为主角的两个流浪汉支离破碎的对话充斥视听,唯一明确的事只有等待。波卓和幸...
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...
评分如果说我在《等待戈多》中看见了一样东西,那就是“虚无”,或者说某种荒诞,即存在之无意义。我相信,贝克特的这个剧本是一场关于存在、关于存在的价值与意义的对话。 关于存在的意义的讨论由来已久,生命总是和痛苦、死亡联系在一起的,然而比死亡更为可怕的是生存的毫无意义...
评分贝克特的文字是一堵墙。 密闭的空间,思想是幻象,荒诞才是真实。 他把自己反锁在房间内,静默在椅子上,钻进自己的身体,从自己的内部寻找出口,这些出口简化为各种感官感受的指代:听觉,视觉,触觉。这样的典型场景也出现在培根的画面中,所以说,培根的画面是躁动不安的。...
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.
Beckett属于那种不读全集不能知道他要说什么的作家。希望能读全集。然后希望读一点Badiou on Beckett.
评分“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Beckett属于那种不读全集不能知道他要说什么的作家。希望能读全集。然后希望读一点Badiou on Beckett.
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.
Waiting for Godot 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书