Mercier and Camier

基本信息

Format Paperback | 128 pages

Dimensions 129 x 198 x 10mm | 149g

Publication date 03 Jun 2010

Publisher FABER & FABER

Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom

Language English

Edition Statement Main

ISBN10 0571244750

ISBN13 9780571244751

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《梅西埃与卡米耶》写于1946年，历时三个月，是贝克特战后的第一部作品，也是他第一部法语小说。他把它看作是一部实践作品，并把它放在一边，写他的三部曲。《梅西埃与卡米耶》最终于1970年出版，四年后出版了贝克特的英译本。

同名的主人公在一个城市里游荡，然后离开城市，再回来。他们漫无目的，但有一些难以捉摸的事情是他们应该做的。他们安排会议，喝酒，争吵，讨论被对方枪杀。他们为天气、为物资、为雨衣、为雨伞、为自行车而惴惴不安...。

后来作品中的所有这些成分在这里都伴随着，转瞬即逝，伴随着贝克特身上那些我们知道但无法真正命名的东西，那些占据了三部曲大部分内容的东西。无形的东西，头脑中的陷阱，我们听到的那个声音，停止的理解，持续的迷惑，恐惧。基思-里奇韦

乔治，卡米尔说，五个三明治，四个包好的，一个在旁边。你看，他说，亲切地转向科内尔先生，我想到了一切。因为我在这里吃的那个会给我力量，让我和其他四个一起回去。科奈尔先生说："很狡猾。你带着你的五个人出发，包好后，感觉昏昏沉沉的，打开后，拿出一个，吃完后，休整一下，继续和其他人一起出发。对于所有的反应，卡米尔开始吃了。你会把他宠坏的，科内尔先生说。昨天是蛋糕，今天是三明治，明天是面包皮，星期四是石头。芥末，卡米尔说。

Written over three months in 1946, Mercier and Camier was Beckett's first post-war work, and his first novel in French. He came to regard it as a practice piece, and set it aside to write his trilogy. Mercier et Camier was finally published in 1970, and in Beckett's English translation four years later.

The eponymous heroes tramp around a city, then out of it, then back again. They are aimless, but there is something elusive that they should be doing. They arrange meetings, they drink, they argue, they discuss being shot of each other. They are preoccupied by the weather, by provisions, by a raincoat, by an umbrella, by a bicycle . . .

'All of these ingredients in the later work are accompanied here, fleetingly, by those things in Beckett that we know but cannot really name, those things that occupy so much of the trilogy. Intangible things, traps in the mind, that voice we hear, the stop-start understanding, the ongoing bewilderment, the fear.' Keith Ridgeway

George, said Camier, five sandwiches, four wrapped and one on the side. You see, he said, turning graciously to Mr Conaire, I think of everything. For the one I eat here will give me the strength to get back with the four others. Sophistry, said Mr Conaire. You set off with your five, wrapped, feel faint, open up, take one out, eat, recuperate, push on with the others. For all response, Camier began to eat. You'll spoil him, said Mr Conaire. Yesterday cakes, today sandwiches, tomorrow crusts and Thursday stones. Mustard, said Camier.

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.