这是塞缪尔-贝克特作品法布尔版中出版的三卷短篇散文集中的最后一卷--其中已经包括一卷早期小说(《被驱逐者》/《平静者》/《结束》/《初恋》)和晚期小说(《公司》/《见怪不怪》/《何以笙歌》)。本卷收录了贝克特在1950年至1970年代初创作和发表的所有短篇小说--其中一些不超过一页--。大多数是用法语写的,它们大多属于三个松散的序列。《虚无的文本》(Texts for Nothing)、《虚无》(Fizzles)和《残留》(Residua)。该版本还包括两部杰出的独立叙事作品。来自《被遗弃的作品》和《当故事被讲述》。所有这些文本,其不眠的主题是他们自己,表明短篇小说是贝克特想象力的反复模式之一,也是他一些最伟大作品的场合。
This is the last of three volumes of collected shorter prose to be published in the Faber edition of the works of Samuel Beckett - which already includes a volume of early stories (The Expelled/The Calmative/The End/First Love) and of late stories (Company/Ill Seen Ill Said/Worstward Ho/Stirrings Still). The present volume contains all of the short fictions - some of them no longer than a page - written and published by Beckett between 1950 and the early 1970s. Most were written in French, and they mostly belong within three loose sequences: Texts for Nothing, Fizzles and Residua. The edition also includes two remarkable independent narratives: From an Abandoned Work and As The Story Was Told. All of these texts, whose unsleeping subject is themselves, demonstrate that the short story is one of the recurrent modes of Beckett's imagination, and occasions some of his greatest works.
... he would like it to be my fault that words fail him, of course words fail him. He tells his story every five minuts, saying it is not his, there's cleverness for you. He would like ti to be my fault that he has no story, of course he has no story, that's no reason for trying to foist one on me...
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.
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