The Expelled/The Calmative/The End with First Love

基本信息

Format Paperback | 128 pages

Dimensions 130 x 197 x 10mm | 125g

Publication date 12 Mar 2010

Publisher FABER & FABER

Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom

Language English

Edition Statement Main

ISBN10 0571244610

ISBN13 9780571244614

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这四篇小说或 "新生儿 "是在1945年发表的，不过都是在更晚的时候以法语和随后的英语出版的。所有故事都使用了第一人称叙述者，并津津乐道于其变化无常--无法记住事实，不确定他为什么要说话，在似乎需要解释的时候失去理智......。最重要的是，这些故事清晰地描绘了叙述者无情节的流浪过程，在接近 "终点 "时更加陡峭。从这些短篇作品和他们的耐心程序中，成长为莫洛伊和马龙之死的大型画布。

我的长椅还在那里。它的形状适合于坐着的身体的曲线。它站在一个水槽旁边，根据铭文，这是一位麦克斯韦夫人送给城市马匹的礼物。在我在那里休息的短暂时间里，有几匹马利用了这个纪念碑。铁鞋走近，马具的叮当声响起。然后是一片寂静。那是马在看我。然后是马喝水时发出的卵石和泥土的声音。然后又是一片寂静。那是马又在看着我。然后又是鹅卵石的声音。然后又是一片寂静。直到马喝完了，或者司机认为它已经喝饱了。

These four stories or 'nouvelles' date from 1945, though all were published much later, in French and subsequently in English. All make use of a first-person narrator, and relish its vagaries - the inability to remember facts, the uncertainty as to why he is speaking in the first place, the loss of heart when explanations seem called for... Above all, the stories crisply plot the narrator's plotless descent into vagrancy, the steeper as it approaches The End. Out of these short works and their patient procedures grew the large canvases of Molloy and Malone Dies.

My bench was still there. It was shaped to fit the curves of the seated body. It stood beside a watering trough, gift of a Mrs Maxwell to the city horses, according to the inscription. During the short time I rested there, several horses took advantage of the monument. The iron shoes approached and the jingle of the harness. Then silence. That was the horse looking at me. Then the noise of pebbles and mud that horses make when drinking. Then the silence again. That was the horse looking at me again. Then the pebbles again. Then the silence again. Till the horse had finished drinking or the driver deemed it had drunk its fill.

作者简介

塞缪尔-贝克特1906年出生在都柏林，毕业于三一学院。他在德国旅行并在伦敦和都柏林居住了一段时间后，于1937年在巴黎定居。第二次世界大战期间，他留在法国，积极参加法国抵抗运动。从1946年春天开始，他的戏剧、小说、短篇小说、诗歌和评论大部分是用法语写的。随着1953年《戈多》在巴黎的演出，贝克特的作品开始获得广泛的认可。在他随后作为剧作家和小说家的职业生涯中，他用法语和英语重新定义了散文小说和戏剧写作的可能性。塞缪尔-贝克特于1961年获得福门托尔奖，1969年获得诺贝尔文学奖。他于1989年12月在巴黎去世。

Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906 and graduated from Trinity College. He settled in Paris in 1937, after travels in Germany and periods of residence in London and Dublin. He remained in France during the Second World War and was active in the French Resistance. From the spring of 1946 his plays, novels, short fiction, poetry and criticism were largely written in French. With the production of En attendant Godot in Paris in 1953, Beckett's work began to achieve widespread recognition. During his subsequent career as a playwright and novelist in both French and English he redefined the possibilities of prose fiction and writing for the theatre. Samuel Beckett won the Prix Formentor in 1961 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969. He died in Paris in December 1989.