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)
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。...
评分选集里面好像郭翻译的文章都属于重度困难的,特别难以进入。例如在《世界与裤子》中缺少相应的译者注,很多美术的东西都需要大量相关知识背景,硬读下去对普通读者来说非常吃力。《无法称呼的人》则本来就难,全部都是飘忽的心理活动,翻译成中文令我觉得一定少了什么东西,就...
评分毫无疑问,这是一本享有盛名的书。毫不讳言,我没怎么读懂,而且,不怕暴露我的浅薄的品味,我的确不怎么喜欢这本书。 但其实,话说回来,这本作为荒诞派戏剧的代表作,由于其本身的荒诞性,让作为读者的我们读不懂倒是很合乎逻辑的。对于除诗歌以外的文体,我毫...
评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...
评分《等待戈多》只有两幕,却被称为“英国荒诞派戏剧的第一剧”。它的经典之名让二十一世纪的我们依然拜读。它何以久负盛名呢? 《等待戈多》出自于爱尔兰剧作家、小说家,荒诞派戏剧奠基人——贝克特之手。在剧中,没有展示激烈的戏剧冲突、引人入胜的情节,甚至没有塑造任...
"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“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.
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 next day, they hanged themselves, leaving this dreamy world of absurdity.
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