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.
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)
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...
評分小说是如何切入人的?就一个故事而言,它呈现的不是全体的人,不是人的全体,而是人的切面(至于最后出来的效果是否具有普遍性,那是另一回事)。甚至,是人体内的一个小黑点,一块组织,一个细胞,一个疼痛的针尖。 故事就是从这个小黑点生长起来的。或者说,故事只能从这样一...
評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...
評分在写下这篇文字的时刻,我关掉所有网页,谷歌百度搜索,还有那么多那么多的评论和观点。也许不该给任何文学作品戴上高帽子的。大多数人信奉“考据派”和“求实理论”,他们说,《等待戈多》是部后现代主义的扛鼎之作,是荒诞剧,讨论了什么呢,大概是等待,大概是虚无,大概是...
評分戏剧通常只有在被理解的基础上才能体现作品本身的活力。这种理解往往表现为使理解者的情绪激动、紧张,或者产生同感并提高为对自身生活的反思,从而达到使理解者暂时脱离自身禁锢的效果。 可在贝克特这里,这种理解被取消了,这部剧怎么看都很难理解,许多读者无法变为理解者...
我必須說,初次接觸這種結構,感覺像被扔進瞭一鍋滾燙的哲學濃湯裏,幾乎要被燙傷。它根本不講故事,它是在展示“無故事”的狀態本身。那種不斷地拋齣問題,然後又立即用另一個無聊的、重復的動作來打斷迴答的可能性,實在是高明得讓人又愛又恨。我尤其欣賞作者對語言的運用,那些看似毫無意義的寒暄,比如關於鞋子、帽子,或者那根該死的鬍蘿蔔,它們構成瞭人類社會交往的底層骨架,但在這部作品裏,這些骨架被抽離瞭所有社會功能,隻剩下純粹的聲音和姿態,像是一場精心編排的啞劇,隻不過是用颱詞來掩蓋瞭沉默的深度。看完後,我腦子裏嗡嗡作響的不是情節,而是那些沒有被說齣的東西,那些被刻意留在舞颱邊緣的、無法被命名的焦慮。那種持續的懸而不決,讓觀眾自己也變成瞭那個等待戈多的人,為接下來的“到來”而緊綳神經,即使我們心裏清楚,“到來”本身可能就是最大的謊言。
评分這本書成功地做到瞭“減法美學”的極緻。它剝離瞭一切傳統戲劇的“必需品”——沒有清晰的背景故事,沒有明確的戲劇衝突,沒有明確的道德教訓,甚至沒有一個明確的“主角”——因為兩位主角似乎隨時可以互換身份,或者被舞颱上齣現的其他角色所取代。它留下的是純粹的“處境”。而正是這種空無一物的處境,迫使觀眾的注意力完全集中在“如何存在”這個問題上。那棵樹,那雙鞋,那個帽子,每一個道具都承載瞭過度的、近乎宗教般的象徵意義,但又被作者以一種漫不經心的態度對待,仿佛它們隻是碰巧齣現在那裏的垃圾。這種處理方式,極其具有顛覆性,它挑戰瞭我們對“藝術作品”應該具備哪些元素的固有期待。最終,留給我的不是對“戈多是誰”的好奇,而是對自己此刻坐在這裏,正在閱讀劇本的這一行為本身,産生的深深的疑問。
评分老實說,當我讀到那些關於流浪漢和他們奴隸的場景時,我被一股強烈的、近乎生理上的不適感攫住瞭。那簡直是對權力結構最冷酷的解構。馬修和他的主人,他們的關係完全顛覆瞭傳統戲劇中對“主僕”的認知。主人施加的絕對控製,不是基於理性的命令,而是基於一種近乎隨機的、甚至有些滑稽的摺磨。而奴隸的順從,則不是恐懼,而更像是一種被馴化的、根深蒂固的慣性。這種對依附關係的描繪,讓我反思我們是如何在各種體係中,心甘情願地接受那些限製我們的“規則”或“權威”的。而且,他們的對話充滿瞭詩意的混亂,你永遠不知道下一秒他們會因為什麼而發怒或變得溫柔,這種不可預測性,比任何明確的暴行都更令人不安,因為它暗示著,規則隨時可能被任意地重新定義。
评分這簡直是對“綫性時間”概念的一次公開處刑。劇本的節奏感極其古怪,時而拖遝得讓人幾乎要睡著,時而又在某個突如其來的動作或對白中猛地把你驚醒。這種對時間的顛覆,讓我不得不重新審視自己對“進展”的定義。我們總是期待事情會嚮前發展,期待一個高潮,一個解決,但在這部作品裏,時間隻是一個不斷重復的圓環。兩位主角的行為模式,那種相互依賴又相互摺磨的關係,簡直是人類伴侶關係的極端抽象。他們互相依賴對方來確認自己的存在,但同時,對方的存在本身也是自己行動受阻的原因。這種辯證的、相互否定的關係,刻畫得極其微妙。我仿佛透過這層荒誕的外殼,看到瞭我們日常生活中那些看似理所當然的固定模式,它們是如何默默地限製瞭我們的自由,把我們固定在原地,對著天空問著同一個永無答案的問題。
评分這本戲簡直是場思想的迷宮,讓人在劇場裏待著,感覺時間仿佛被拉伸成瞭永恒的具象。舞颱上那棵光禿禿的樹,簡直就是對“存在”本身最無聲的嘲諷。兩位主角的對話,那種重復、那種永不抵達的期望,讓人不禁思考我們日常生活中那些日復一日的堅持,究竟是齣於希望,還是僅僅因為害怕停下來會麵對更空曠的虛無。我全程都在努力捕捉那些潛藏的意義,但它就像沙子一樣從指縫間溜走,你以為抓住瞭,一攤開手,又隻剩下空落落的空氣。每一次的互動都充滿瞭荒謬的邏輯,卻又精準地擊中瞭人性的某種核心睏境——等待,以及等待中逐漸腐蝕的意義感。演員們的肢體語言,特彆是那種刻意的緩慢和重復的動作,比起颱詞本身更具有穿透力,它們把那種徒勞感具象化瞭,讓人看完後,心裏堵著一塊說不清道不明的東西,久久不能散去。這絕對不是那種能讓你放鬆心情的劇本,它像一麵冰冷的鏡子,映照齣我們對確定性的可笑執念。
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“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 next day, they hanged themselves, leaving this dreamy world of absurdity.
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“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—“
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