Samuel Beckett cytaty

Samuel Barclay Beckett – irlandzki dramaturg, prozaik i eseista, tworzący początkowo w języku angielskim, a od 1945 – francuskim. Jeden z twórców teatru absurdu. Jego powieści są pozbawiane tradycyjnej narracji, utrzymane w klimacie skrajnego pesymizmu i podkreślające bezsens ludzkiej egzystencji. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Kwiecień 1906 – 22. Grudzień 1989
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Samuel Beckett słynne cytaty

To tłumaczenie czeka na recenzję. Czy to jest poprawne?

„Kiedykolwiek próbowałeś. Kiedykolwiek Ci się nie udało. Nieważne. Spróbuj jeszcze raz. Przegraj jeszcze raz. Przegraj lepiej.”

Wariant: Spróbowałem. Poniosłem porażkę. Nieważne. Spróbuję jeszcze raz. Znowu poniosę porażkę. Tym razem lepszą/mniejszą.

„Wszyscy rodzimy się szaleni. Niektórzy już tacy pozostają.”

Czekając na Godota
Źródło: akt II, tłum. Antoni Libera

„Tu leży ten. co zwiał z tak daleka,
że nie wcześniej niż teraz stąd ucieka.”

Ci-gît qui y échappa tant. Qu’il n’en échappe que maintenant. (fr.)
Źródło: Pierwsza miłość, tłum. Maria Ziębina

„z każdą inaczej i tak samo
z każdą brak miłości jest inny
z każdą brak miłości jest ten sam”

Źródło: przychodzą… z cyklu Wiersze 1937–1939, tłum. Julia Hartwig

„Jeden z łotrów został zbawiony. Przyzwoity procent.”

Czekając na Godota
Źródło: akt I, tłum. Antoni Libera

Samuel Beckett cytaty

„(…) w tym miejscu i w danym momencie ludzkość cała to my, czy nam się podoba, czy nie.”

Czekając na Godota
Źródło: akt II, tłum. Antoni Libera

„Moje serce nie puka. Odgłosu, jak wydaje ta stara pompa należałoby szukać raczej w świecie hydrauliki.”

For it does not beat, not my heart, I’d have to refer you to hydraulics for the squelch that old pump makes. (ang.)
Źródło: Molloy http://books.google.pl/books?id=sglVtT7_nH4C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, Grove Press, 1994, s. 121.

„Musi być pan bardzo zmęczony.”

odpowiedź na zdanie „Czytam pana dzieła przez całe życie”.
Źródło: Mel Gussow, Conversations With and About Beckett

„Pierw taniec, następnie myśl. Taki jest naturalny porządek.”

Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order. (ang.)

„Oto właśnie cały człowiek, winę nogi zwala na but.”

Czekając na Godota
Źródło: akt I, tłum. Antoni Libera

„Każde słowo jest jak niepotrzebna plama na ciszy i nicości.”

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. (ang.)
Źródło: Beckett wins a Nobel prize http://books.google.pl/books?id=5FAEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false [w:] „Life” nr 19, rocznik 67, 7 listopada 1969, s. 93.

Samuel Beckett: Cytaty po angielsku

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

Samuel Beckett książka Worstward Ho

Worstward Ho (1983)
Wariant: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Kontekst: All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

“I wish them all an atrocious life and then the fires and ice of hell and in the execrable generations to come an honoured name.”

Samuel Beckett książka Malone Dies

Malone Dies (1951)
Kontekst: Let me say before I go any further that I forgive nobody. I wish them all an atrocious life and then the fires and ice of hell and in the execrable generations to come an honoured name.

“Some of this rubbish has come in handy on occasions, I don’t deny it, on occasions which would never have arisen if they had left me in peace. I use it still, to scratch my arse with.”

Samuel Beckett książka The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)
Kontekst: What they were most determined for me to swallow was my fellow creatures. In this they were without mercy. I remember little or nothing of these lectures. I cannot have understood a great deal. But I seem to have retained certain descriptions, in spite of myself. They gave me courses on love, on intelligence, most precious, most precious. They also taught me to count, and even to reason. Some of this rubbish has come in handy on occasions, I don’t deny it, on occasions which would never have arisen if they had left me in peace. I use it still, to scratch my arse with.

“The only sin is the sin of being born.”

As quoted in "Samuel Beckett Talks About Beckett" by John Gruen, in Vogue, (December 1969), p. 210
Comparable to "The tragic figure represents the expiation of original sin, of the original and eternal sin of him and all his 'soci malorum,' the sin of having been born. 'Pues el delito mayor / Del hombre es haber nacido.'" from his essay Proust, quoting Pedro Calderón de la Barca's La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream).

“What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can.”

Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)
Kontekst: What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past. For mostly I do not know, it is perhaps no longer so, it is too soon to know, I simply do not know, perhaps shall never know.

“I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.”

The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929–1940 (2009), p. 362
Kontekst: I think the next little bit of excitement is flying. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.

“Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong.”

Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)
Kontekst: And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.

“Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.”

Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)
Kontekst: All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

“I played the part, you know, the part of — how shall I say, I don’t know.”

The End (1946)
Kontekst: I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of — how shall I say, I don’t know.

“Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.”

The End (1946)
Kontekst: Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.

“Nothing is more real than nothing.”

Samuel Beckett książka Malone Dies

Malone Dies (1951), p. 16

“Personally of course I regret everything.”

Samuel Beckett książka Watt

Part I, p. 37
Watt (1943)
Kontekst: Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place, that I do not regret, exceedingly. An ordure, from beginning to end.

“I did my best to go in a circle, hoping in this way to go in a straight line.”

Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)
Kontekst: Having heard, or more probably read somewhere, in the days when I thought I would be well advised to educate myself, or amuse myself, or stupefy myself, or kill time, that when a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping in this way to go in a straight line. For I stopped being half-witted and became sly, whenever I took the trouble … and if I did not go in a rigorously straight line, with my system of going in a circle, at least I did not go in a circle, and that was something.

“By nature I mean here, like the naïvest realist, a composite of perceiver and perceived, not a datum, an experience.”

Samuel Beckett książka Three Dialogues

Also quoted in "Beckett and Failure", in Realism, Issue 5 (June 2011) http://www.hypocritereader.com/5/beckett-and-failure
Three Dialogues (1949)
Kontekst: By nature I mean here, like the naïvest realist, a composite of perceiver and perceived, not a datum, an experience. All I wish to suggest is that the tendency and accomplishment of this painting are fundamentally those of previous painting, straining to enlarge the statement of a compromise.

“Let me cry out then, it's said to be good for you. Yes let me cry out, this time, then another time perhaps, then perhaps a last time.”

Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)
Kontekst: To decompose is to live too, I know, I know, don't torment me, but one sometimes forgets. And of that life too I shall tell you perhaps one day, the day I know that when I thought I knew I was merely existing and that passion without form or stations will have devoured me down to the rotting flesh itself and that when I know that I know nothing, am only crying out as I have always cried out, more or less piercingly, more or less openly. Let me cry out then, it's said to be good for you. Yes let me cry out, this time, then another time perhaps, then perhaps a last time.

“What makes me weep so? From time to time. There is nothing saddening here.”

Samuel Beckett książka The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)
Kontekst: The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? From time to time. There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.

“I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.”

Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)
Kontekst: I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows. I was a solid in the midst of other solids.

“Nohow less. Nohow worse. Nohow naught. Nohow on.”

Samuel Beckett książka Worstward Ho

Worstward Ho (1983)
Kontekst: Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds of boundless void. Whence no farther. Best worse no farther. Nohow less. Nohow worse. Nohow naught. Nohow on.

“I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?”

Samuel Beckett książka Malone Dies

Malone Dies (1951)
Kontekst: Or I might be able to catch one, a little girl for example, and half strangle her, three quarters, until she promises to give me my stick, give me soup, empty my pots, kiss me, fondle me, smile to me, give me my hat, stay with me, follow the hearse weeping into her handkerchief, that would be nice. I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?

“They didn’t say in so many words that I was as well as I would ever be, but that was the implication.”

The End (1946)
Kontekst: I didn’t feel well, but they told me I was well enough. They didn’t say in so many words that I was as well as I would ever be, but that was the implication.

“Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.”

Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)
Kontekst: My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.

“I only see what appears close beside me, what I best see I see ill.”

Samuel Beckett książka The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)
Kontekst: In order to obtain the optimum view of what takes place in front of me, I should have to lower my eyes a little. But I lower my eyes no more. In a word, I only see what appears close beside me, what I best see I see ill.

“For had I been able to conceive something worse than what I had I would have known no peace until I got it, if I know anything about myself.”

Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)
Kontekst: Anything worse than what I do, without knowing what, or why, I have never been able to conceive, and that doesn’t surprise me, for I never tried. For had I been able to conceive something worse than what I had I would have known no peace until I got it, if I know anything about myself.

“To decompose is to live too, I know, I know, don't torment me, but one sometimes forgets.”

Samuel Beckett książka Molloy

Molloy (1951)
Kontekst: To decompose is to live too, I know, I know, don't torment me, but one sometimes forgets. And of that life too I shall tell you perhaps one day, the day I know that when I thought I knew I was merely existing and that passion without form or stations will have devoured me down to the rotting flesh itself and that when I know that I know nothing, am only crying out as I have always cried out, more or less piercingly, more or less openly. Let me cry out then, it's said to be good for you. Yes let me cry out, this time, then another time perhaps, then perhaps a last time.

“What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity.”

Samuel Beckett książka The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)
Kontekst: What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.

“What they were most determined for me to swallow was my fellow creatures. In this they were without mercy.”

Samuel Beckett książka The Unnamable

The Unnamable (1954)
Kontekst: What they were most determined for me to swallow was my fellow creatures. In this they were without mercy. I remember little or nothing of these lectures. I cannot have understood a great deal. But I seem to have retained certain descriptions, in spite of myself. They gave me courses on love, on intelligence, most precious, most precious. They also taught me to count, and even to reason. Some of this rubbish has come in handy on occasions, I don’t deny it, on occasions which would never have arisen if they had left me in peace. I use it still, to scratch my arse with.

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