Chapter 141 Beckett's Works and the Nobel Prize

Beckett's Works and the Nobel Prize The Swedish Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969 was awarded to a contemporary Irish novel written in French. Say playwright Samuel Beckett.The choice this time can be said to be more exciting than the Japanese Kawabata Yasunari the year before last. Surprised.Beckett's most famous and most "successful" "absurd play" was his 1952 The two-act play "Waiting for Godot" published in 1999.There is already a Chinese translation of this script, and it is said that it has been published in staged in Taiwan. Please see a few lines of dialogue between the two characters on stage in "Waiting for Godot":

"Love: How about we hang ourselves? Buddha: Hanging can make our penis erect. Love: (excited) Erection! Buddha: Mandala flowers will grow on the land where the semen drips, so every time you dial When they do, they make a shrill cry.Haven't you heard of it? Love: Then let's hang ourselves immediately! "(The translation is based on the Chinese translation jointly translated by Liu and Qiu Book) Here Beckett cites the European Middle Ages for "ginseng" and the physiological occurrence of hanged prisoners after execution The legend of the abnormality is almost a bit of a show off.If these two characters of his were really hanged like this,

That's all.But never, on the stage has been "fooling around" like this, acting in a scene Another act that made this ridiculous "Waiting for Godot" famous and made its author last year Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In addition to stubborn religious prejudice, the Nobel Prize for Literature has become a political game in recent years. segment tool.In the last ten years, they have awarded prize money to Soviet writers twice in a row.one-time award Pasternak (the author of "Doctor Zhivago") who privately published his works abroad did so on purpose

Embarrassing the Soviet Union; once awarded to Sholokhov (the author), but deliberately to discredit All right.But in the past, the Nobel Prize Committee for Literature did not even consider such an excellent writer as Gorky. I have never considered it, that is one end, the other can be imagined. And the award committee awarded Beckett the literary award this time, which is even more self-deprecating, because Beckett Kurt has long confessed to his readers that he had two teachers in writing, and that he was the teacher in English. James Joyce, his countryman predecessor, is Marcel Prose in French.the work of these two

works, although their influence on modern European literature, especially the novel, is great, but in In the eyes of the past Nobel Prize Committee for Literature, their works are deviant, neither Orthodox, Joyce's novel "Ulysses" has been banned in Britain and the United States until recent years. Naturally, neither of them would be awarded a literary prize, but this time it was awarded to their private disciple Beckett, Isn't it self-slapping? Samuel Beckett was originally from England and Ireland. He was born in Dublin in 1900. This year Already seventy-one years old.He writes novels and scripts, and in recent years he has even written TV and radio dramas.originally in english

Written in English, later switched to French.Sometimes I translate my English works into French, and sometimes the French The text is translated into English.Having settled down in France in recent years, it seems that even his Irish origin has to be given up. The novels published by Beckett in his early years, such as "Malfi" in 1938, began in 1951. The first published trilogy "Molloy", "Mallon is Dead" and "The Nameless Thing" are all discrepancies In the style of Joyce's Ulysses and Prowse's Remembrance of Things Past, the main The plots are all the protagonist's monologue, as well as the illusions in his heart and the scene in front of him, plus the memories of the past.

Memories and all kinds of phenomena intertwined are exactly the same as we sit there alone, hustle and bustle in our hearts Think about everything that comes to mind.The difference is that we may not all be patients, and not all of us may be absolutely hopeless about life. Hope, and these characters in Beckett's works are always sick and dying, and desperate for life. Prose's Remembrance of Things Past, and Joyce's Ulysses, both The length of the novel is extremely huge, and there has always been a "great influence, but few readers" in the history of modern European literature.

It seems that Beckett's novels can catch up with his teacher in this regard. Although Beckett's novels are not widely read, the two-act play he published in 1952 After "Waiting for Godot" was staged in England, it won him a large audience.Since then he has become One of the patriarchs of the Modern Theater of the Absurd, whose other works are almost forgotten. Beckett's characters, I was originally pessimistic and desperate, and I tried all kinds of boring ways to spend my "limited time". In the script of Waiting for Goduo, it can be said that it has reached the highest peak (let's look at the few lines of dialogue quoted earlier,

can be seen briefly).In the capitalist society after the Second World War in Europe, many desperate and pessimistic Audiences take plays like "Waiting for Godot" as marijuana, which is the essence of "absurd drama". The author was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for a reason.