/View.information/ I feel that the interpretation provided to us by a number of younger and already well-known philosophers of Samuel Beckett’s work is …absurd. They see in him the sufferer of contemporary society, of capital, and in a, I might say, schizophrenic method, deny the writings and vibrant considered this creator. Beckett doesn’t endure for social or political causes, however for existential causes, due to the state of affairs through which fashionable man is positioned. A extra favorable social state of affairs would mitigate the evil on the planet, and the alternative would activate it. However so far as I do know, no revolution has succeeded and can reach fixing the issue of human existence.
It’s sufficient to go searching and take into consideration what occurred prior to now two centuries and particularly within the final fifty years to be satisfied of the collapse of revolutions, of ideologies, of political actions.
Talking of the bourgeois revolution and the society established by it, Karl Marx outlined it as much less good than feudalism. Subsequent revolutions are additionally decidedly retrograde politically, and spiritually and humanly.
Trendy revolutions have introduced even higher distress and injustice to the world…
And as we see: neither Beckett, nor different nice writers and artists akin to: Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, William Faulkner, and plenty of others, can’t be understood if we ignore the issue of faith that had engaged and which couldn’t be seen as one thing overseas and summary.
In Marx and the utopians, we will additionally discover already fairly degraded myths which have change into an ideology, however maybe not sufficiently expressive and eloquent because the non secular ones. The seek for a brand new Jerusalem, the Misplaced Paradise, the rebirth and salvation of man…
If the title of Samuel Beckett’s first play “Ready for Godot” is unambiguous, then his final work “The Exterminator”, near Kafka and Jorge Luis Borges – doesn’t include an oz of ambiguity: humanity thrown into the pit referred to as “the world” , needs to ascend to the excessive heavens, removed from every thing earthly.
All of Beckett’s work represents man’s insurrection in opposition to the Divine, embodying, as I mentioned a while in the past – and this method has unfold – “the picture of Job on his heap of filth.”
That is proper. “The childish politicization of the theater, which Röne Kaliski instructed us about within the final challenge of “Kaye Rönno-Barro”, is definitely an indication of the deadlock of the trendy theater. And fairly a couple of authors of right this moment have fallen into this deadlock.
That’s the reason I’m satisfied that the theater have to be depoliticized.
Translated from French: OGNIAN STAMBOLIEV
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