薩繆爾·貝剋特（Samuel Beckett），1906年4月13日生於都柏林南郊的福剋斯羅剋，1989年12月22日逝於巴黎。僑居法國的愛爾蘭小說傢、戲劇傢、詩人，同時用英文和法文進行創作，1969年因其作品“以新的小說和戲劇的形式從現代人的窘睏中獲得崇高”而榮膺諾貝爾文學奬。

龔蓉，中國社會科學院外國文學研究所助理研究員。著有《〈剋雷濛復仇記〉：政治化的殉道者陰影下的公共人》《〈少女的悲劇〉：契約論與君權神授論的對話》等論文。

餘中先，中國社會科學院外國文學研究所研究員，《世界文學》前主編，中國社會科學院研究生院博士生導師。現受聘為廈門大學講座教授。北京大學畢業，曾留學法國，在巴黎第四大學獲得文學博士學位。長年從事法語文學作品的翻譯、評論、研究工作，翻譯介紹瞭奈瓦爾、剋洛代爾、阿波利奈爾、貝剋特、西濛、羅伯－格裏耶、薩岡、昆德拉、勒剋萊齊奧、圖森、艾什諾茲等人的小說、戲劇、詩歌作品。被法國政府授予文學藝術騎士勛章。

Collected here in one volume, Samuel Beckett’s three novels, which are among the most beautiful and disquieting of his later prose works, come together with the powerful resonance of his famous Three Novels : Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable .

In Company , a voice comes to one on his back in the dark” and speaks to him, describing significant moments in life, and yet we are told it is all a fable, memories or figments devised or imagined for the sake of company. Ill Seen Ill Said focuses attention on an old woman in a cabin who is part of the objects, landscape, rhythms, and movements of an incomprehensible universe. And in Worstward Ho , Beckett explores a tentative, uncertain existence in a world devoid of rational meaning and purpose. Here is language pared down to its most expressive, confirming Beckett’s position as one of the great writers of our time.