MURPHY
Book ID/图书代码： 04560010B35625
English Summary/英文概要： Murphy, Samuel Beckett’s first novel, was published in 1938. Its work-shy eponymous hero, adrift in London, realises that desire can never be satisfied and withdraws from life, in search of stupor. Murphy’s lovestruck fiancée Celia tries with tragic pathos to draw him back, but her attempts are doomed to failure. Murphy’s friends and familiars are simulacra of Murphy, fragmented and incomplete.
But Beckett’s achievement lies in the brilliantly original language used to communicate this vision of isolation and misunderstanding. The combination of particularity and absurdity gives Murphy’s world its painful definition, but the sheer comic energy of Beckett’s prose releases characters and readers alike into exuberance.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 貝克特的第一部長篇小說Murphy被拒絕42次之後於1938年才最終得以出版。在小說中他構畫了一個“精神衰弱的唯我主義者”- Murphy，熱戀中的女友希望能讓他回到現實世界中但註定是失敗之舉。作品中充斥的是Samuel Beckett慣有的晦澀的、瓦解的語言和他所描畫的一個分崩離析的世界。這部作品第一次較全面的展示了貝克特對文學創作的思索。文學史上將這部這部著作和喬伊絲的《尤利西斯》一併歸於愛爾蘭的城市史詩之列。 Beckett的成就在於他能夠將支離破碎的語言、連篇的廢話和荒謬悖理巧妙轉化成一種幽默感，使悲劇中頗富於喜劇氣氛，這就是他用來表現人的孤獨感和人生的荒誕性的‘悲喜劇”手法。（Claire）
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About the Author/作者介绍： Samuel Beckett是愛爾蘭著名戲劇作家、小說家、詩人，被公認為荒誕派奠基人之一。于1906年出生于都柏林，曾就讀於波托拉皇家學校，1927年畢業于柏林三一學院，獲法文和義大利文學士學位。二戰之前他的作品有詩集、散文和兩部小說。1949年他撰寫了他的作品中最受關注的劇本Waiting for Godot, 但是這部作品的英文版本直到1954年才得以出版。Waiting for Godot建立了Samuel Beckett在國際上的知名度，並且奠定了他在荒誕派戲劇界的領軍人物的位置。1969他因“以一種新的小說與戲劇的形式，以崇高的藝術表現人類的苦惱”而獲得諾貝爾文學獎。之後繼續為廣播、電視和戲劇撰寫劇本直至終年。
Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin in 1906. He was educated at Portora Royal School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1927. His made his poetry debut in 1930 with Whoroscope and followed it with essays and two novels before World War Two. He wrote one of his most famous plays, Waiting for Godot, in 1949 but it wasn’t published in English until 1954. Waiting for Godot brought Beckett international fame and firmly established him as a leading figure in the Theatre of the Absurd. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Beckett continued to write prolifically for radio, TV and the theatre until his death in 1989.
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