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Beckett’s Dystopian Trilogy, Part I: The Irrelevance of Godot

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Gontarski S.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

2021

vol. 63

issue 4

7-27

Autor analizuje szereg zmian wprowadzonych do tekstu dramatu Samuela Becketta Czekając na Godota, których dokonał autor tłumacząc tekst oraz inne osoby zajmujące się edycją manuskryptu sztuki. Opisując szczegółowo różnice między poszczególnymi wersjami manuskryptu, autor tłumaczy, w jaki sposób zmiany te wynikają z popularnych w tamtej epoce poglądów dotyczących degradacji człowieka i ludzkości. Artykuł kreśli zarówno zarys poglądów samego Becketta na te zagadnienia, jak i ogólne filozoficzne i kulturowe tło epoki. Obok tych genologicznych dociekań autor stawia tezę, że tematem sztuki Becketta jest w mniejszym stopniu nieobecności Godota, czy Boga, a w większym lęk wywołany wizją degradacji ludzkości, umierania i zaniku życiowych energii. Artykuł stanowi zatem przeglądowe omówienie stanowisk filozoficznych, które stoją za powstaniem Czekając na Godota, szczególnie monologu Lucky’ego, a także daje wgląd w historię edytowania tekstu sztuki.

The article concentrates on a variety of textual alterations introduced to Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot either in the process of translation by the author or by the third parties. In a close reading of these changes the article follows the philosophy of human degradation and connects it both with Beckett’s own ideas on the matter and with a broad cultural context of the epoch. Apart from this philological and cultural analysis, the article advances a thesis that the main theme of Beckett play is not necessarily the absence of Godot/God, or a figure of authority, but the fact of humanity slowly descending into stagnation, depletion of energy and hope as well as physical deprivation. Therefore the article offers an interesting study of Beckett from textual and cultural perspectives, but it also makes a contribution to the genetic criticism of his oeuvre.

Jak człowiek Becketta zrodził się z Keatona, czyli absurdalna Księga Rodzaju

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Malczewska P.

Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication

2009

vol. 7

issue 13-14

211-223

“How Beckett’s Man Was Born from Keaton, or an Absurdist Book of Genesis” is an attempt to find the origins of Beckettian characters in cinematic tradition. The choice of Buster Keaton is intentional, as it was him – proud and headstrong and not the overly sentimental Chaplin – who introduced the sphere of the essence of existence (stemming from the antic tragedy) into the world of slapstick (a part of low culture). Keaton – the deadpan comedian from his serious comedies and Samuel Beckett – the creator of the theatre where lack of action forms the bulk of the action both entered the field of eschatological reflections while contradicting the form they both had been using. Experimenting with Time as a matter in the work they achieved a narrative breakthrough – Beckett by stretching it to the unbearable, never-ending “here and now”, Keaton by shrinking it, so that the hero could never keep up with the events or the viewer’s perception. All in the name of absurd, the sense of which both Beckett and Keaton shared to a surprising extent.

How Beckett’s Man Was Born from Keaton, or an Absurdist Book of Genesis “How Beckett’s Man Was Born from Keaton, or an Absurdist Book of Genesis” is an attempt to find the origins of Beckettian characters in cinematic tradition. The choice of Buster Keaton is intentional, as it was him – proud and headstrong and not the overly sentimental Chaplin – who introduced the sphere of the essence of existence (stemming from the antic tragedy) into the world of slapstick (a part of low culture). Keaton – the deadpan comedian from his serious comedies and Samuel Beckett – the creator of the theatre where lack of action forms the bulk of the action both entered the field of eschatological reflections while contradicting the form they both had been using. Experimenting with Time as a matter in the work they achieved a narrative breakthrough – Beckett by stretching it to the unbearable, never-ending “here and now”, Keaton by shrinking it, so that the hero could never keep up with the events or the viewer’s perception. All in the name of absurd, the sense of which both Beckett and Keaton shared to a surprising extent.

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1 Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

1 Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication

1 Gontarski S.

1 Malczewska P.

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Beckett’s Dystopian Trilogy, Part I: The Irrelevance of Godot

Jak człowiek Becketta zrodził się z Keatona, czyli absurdalna Księga Rodzaju