WATT
Book ID/图书代码： 04560010B35626
English Summary/英文概要： Written in Roussillon during World War II, while Samuel Beckett was hiding from the Gestapo, Watt was first published in 1953. Beckett acknowledged that this comic novel unlike any other ‘has its place in the series’ - those masterpieces running from Murphy to the Trilogy, Waiting for Godot and beyond. It shares their sense of a world in crisis, their profound awareness of the paradoxes of being, and their distrust of the rational universe.
Watt tells the tale of one who comes to serve Mr Knott, but must leave when his time is up, still knowing nothing of his master. Watt’s mistake is to derive the essence of his master from the accidentals of his being, and his painstakingly logical attempts to ‘know’ ultimately consign him to the asylum.
Itself a critique of error, Watt has previously appeared in editions that are littered with mistakes, both major and minor. The new Faber edition offers for the first time a corrected text based on a scholarly appraisal of the manuscripts and textual history.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 小說《瓦特》的非凡創作可以看作是Samuel Beckett文學生涯的轉捩點。二戰期間作者參加了地下黨的抵抗組織，為逃避法西斯的追捕逃到了法國南部的魯西榮，並在1942年至1944年間完成了這本書。1953年出版。Samuel Beckett認為這部作品是獨一無二的，儘管像Murphy或者Waiting for Godot這些作品在國際上成績斐然，但他認為WATT 仍然“佔有重要的位置”。沒有合乎邏輯的、非理性的舞臺形象其實含著深層的豐厚性和社會意義，因為只有一個荒誕、墮落的社會環境才會產生貝克特所創作的這類文學作品。 WATT之前的版本都或多或少得存在著大的錯誤或小的瑕疵，此次是基於作者手稿和原版基礎上經過學術性評估之後的校正版本。 (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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