Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still

基本信息

Format Paperback | 176 pages

Dimensions 128 x 197 x 13mm | 170g

Publication date 01 Jun 2009

Publisher FABER & FABER

Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom

Language English

Edition Statement Main

ISBN10 0571244734

ISBN13 9780571244737

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

塞缪尔-贝克特的这四部最后的散文小说最初是单独出版的，它们的创作跨越了他生命的最后十年。在《陪伴》中，一个孤独的听众躺在黑暗中，唤起了遥远的过去的影像。Ill Seen Ill Said 冥想了一个老妇人在一个与世隔绝的雪地小屋中独自度过她最后的日子，由十二个神秘的哨兵看守着。在Worstward Ho中，一个气喘吁吁的演讲者解开了事物的意义，表演了 "再试一次。再次失败。失败得更好'。1989年贝克特去世前几个月在《卫报》上发表的《激荡》（Stirrings Still）是他最后的散文作品，也是 "这位伟大的时代和老人的预言家"（Christopher Ricks）的遗嘱。

本版包括几个短的散文文本（《黑暗中的听见》I和II、《一个晚上》、《路》、《天花板》），这些文本代表了正在进行的工作或对这些晚期杰作的创作的辅助工作。

These four last prose fictions by Samuel Beckett were originally published individually, and their composition spanned the final decade of his life. In Company a solitary hearer lying in blackness calls up images from the far-off past. Ill Seen Ill Said meditates upon an old woman living out her last days alone in an isolated snow-bound cottage, watched over by twelve mysterious sentinels. In Worstward Ho, a breathless speaker unravels the sense of things, acting out the unending injunction to 'Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' And Stirrings Still, published in the Guardian a few months before Beckett's death in 1989, is the last prose work and testament of 'this great soothsayer of the age, and of the aged' (Christopher Ricks).

The present edition includes several short prose texts (Heard in the Dark I & II, One Evening, The Way, Ceiling) which represent work in progress or works ancillary to the composition of these late masterpieces.

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.