目录 [爱尔兰]塞缪尔·贝克特 等待戈多 [法国]尤金·尤奈斯库 阿麦迪或脱身术 [美国]爱德华·弗兰克林·阿尔比 动物园的故事 [英国]哈罗尔德·品特 送菜升降机

Contents: Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Happy Days, All That Fall, Acts Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Roughs for the Theatre, Embers, Roughs for the Radio, Words and Music, Cascando, Play, Film, The Old Tune, Come and Go, Eh Joe, Breath, Not I, That Time, Footfalls, Ghost Trio, . . . but the clouds . . ., A Piece of Monologue, Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu, Quad, Catastrophe, Nacht und Traume, What Where.

今年4月13日是世界著名作家贝克特诞辰100周年纪念，湖南文艺出版社推出了《贝克特选集》。全书共5卷，125万字，按年代收录了贝克特定居法国巴黎后所有用法文写作的作品，由中国社科院研究员、《世界文学》主编余中先主译。 塞缪尔·贝克特因为“他那具有奇特形式的小说和戏剧作品，使现代人从精神困乏中得到振奋”而荣获1969年诺贝尔文学奖，但在中国，很多人对他的了解只限于他的成名作《等待戈多》。 据悉，贝克特正式的文学生涯，是从小说创作和写诗开始的，其小说的数量也远远高于戏剧作品。从文学表现的角度来说，贝克特以表现内心世界的飘忽和细腻见长，小说作为一种个性化更强的形式，更适合贝克特。他用法语写就的小说三部曲《莫罗瓦》《马龙正在死去》和《无名者》打破传统，淡化情节人物，只有絮絮叨叨的内心独白。这种写法直接导致了法国新小说派的文学实验。许多评论家都认为，这个三部曲比《等待戈多》更强有力更重要，很少有哪部现代文学作品对于人类经验的理解如此深刻。贝克特健在时，国际上流传这样一种说法：博尔赫斯、纳博科夫、贝克特是存世的三位最伟大作家。但在国内，贝克特的小说基本上被忽略了，这可以说是中国翻译界的一大损失。此次湖南文艺推出的5卷本的《贝克特选集》，将《莫罗瓦》三部曲收录在内，可以说在很大程度上弥补了这方面的缺失。 本卷收录：《莫洛伊》《马龙之死》

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature n 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. "Endgame, " originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett's characteristic raw minimalism, it is a pure and devastating distillation of the human essence in the face of approaching death.

'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterize the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Theatre de Babylone in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, in time, represent the most important premiere to be staged in Paris for forty years. Nobody acquainted with Beckett's masterly black comedy would now question this prescient recognition of a classic of twentieth-century literature.

Written in French and first performed at the Th��tre du Bablyone in Paris, in 1953, En attendant Godot was subsequently translated by Samuel Beckett into English as Waiting for Godot . It was performed at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955, and first published by Faber in 1956. To mark the centenary of Beckett's birth and the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication, Faber are now publishing for the first time a bilingual edition of this great masterpiece. Subtitled 'a tragicomedy in two acts', and once famously described by the Irish critic Vivian Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice'. Waiting for Godot is also a play that was written twice. Here, on facing pages, the reader can watch it unfold simultaneously in two languages.