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)
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.
我似乎是个没有所谓“信仰”的人 还记得2012年夏日的某一天,办公室里突然掀起关于“个人信仰”的讨论。领导发问:“你们的信仰是什么?”“我的信仰……是过简单、幸福的生活”我转了一圈眼珠子,憋出这么一个回答。“你这算是没信仰”。领导笑着看了我一眼,便望向其他同事。...
评分《等待戈多》的剧本我翻了两三遍,,真是无聊透顶。看了一些诠释,觉得各种符号隐喻解释得牵强附会,毫无道理。我看第一遍时就有了一个自己的解释:戈多就是死亡。等待戈多就是等待死亡。戈多必然到来,在那棵树下。人不免一死——与戈多相会。至于戈多什么时候来,怎么来,等...
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...
评分豆瓣推荐是令人发指的。 例子有二:周一晚上我刚在北广的学报上看到创新扩散理论。回到宿舍,惊现我的推荐书目中有本《创新的扩散》。 周三晚上看《中国图书评论》,看到一段评贝克特的不错就抄下了,周五就发现它推荐我读《等待戈多——贝克特选集3》(午夜文丛),如果说豆瓣...
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!"
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“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.
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