就在刚刚过去的2006年,英国、法国和爱尔兰都为纪念一位著名作家的百年诞辰举行了隆重的仪式。这位作家就是出生于爱尔兰,后长期定居法国,并同时用英、法两种语言写作的塞缪尔·贝克特。贝克特于1969年,因“他那具有奇特形式的小说和戏剧作品,使现代人从精神困乏中得到振奋”而获得诺贝尔文学奖。 Just in 2006, Britain, France and Ireland held a grand ceremony to mark the centenary of a famous writer. The writer is Samuel Beckett, a native of Ireland who later settled in France and wrote both English and French. Beckett won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969 for his “novelty and dramatic productions that modernize people from their mental distress.”