MORE PRICKS THAN KICKS

Book ID/图书代码： 04560010B41196

English Summary/英文概要： Samuel Beckett’s first published work of fiction, More Pricks than Kicks (1934) is a collection of ten interlocking stories, set in Dublin and involving their adrift student hero Belacqua in a series of brief encounters, parodically elaborated, as woman after woman comes crashing through his solipsistic carapace. More Pricks contains in embryo the centrifugal world of Beckett’s later men and women.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： More Pricks than Kicks是Samuel Beckett第一本出版的故事集，由十個故事組成，時而詼諧幽默，時而陰鬱低沉，以迥異的文風表達了一致的主題，貫穿十個故事的主線是主人公Belacqua離奇荒謬的一生，從學生時代到突然離世，從在世的冷漠無情到去世時的無人問津，將人生的荒誕、無意義和難以捉摸通過人物和情節設置表現得淋漓盡致，惟妙惟肖。從本部作品可以窺到Samuel Beckett遠離現實主義創作風格的雛形。 (Claire)

Awards/获奖情况：‘The incidents themselves do not matter much; the point of the story is in the style of presentation, which is witty, extravagant, and excessive. Mr. Beckett makes a great deal of everything; that is his art. Sometimes it degenerates into excellent blarney, but at its best it has an ingenuity and freedom of movement which are purely delightful.’---Edwin Muir, The Listener, 4 July 1934

About the Author/作者介绍： 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.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。

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