De la terreur du Temps dans le théâtre de Samuel Beckett
On the Terror of Time in Samuel Beckett’s Theater

Summary/Abstract: In my article, I aimed to follow the metaphysical connection to Time in one of the most troubling plays written by Samuel Beckett: Fin de partie - Endgame (1957). Mirrored in its title, the central metaphor of the chess game is the core of my analysis, therefore I tried to follow its vectorial trajectory in a complex cultural environment from Greek philosophy (the Megarian School) to the Heideggerian concept of Dasein. In this light, Samuel Beckett’s theatre has a philosophical architecture of questions regarding the ending of everything from individual and collective life to literature itself, to theatre: absurd stalemate in a terrifying chess endgame played against Time.

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