Simulacres de la conscience : jeu de répétition et jeu à répétition comme dispositifs de cadrage de la subjectivité dans "Fin de partie" de Samuel Beckett
Simulacra of Consciousness: Game of Repetition and Repetitive Game as Devices for Framing the Subjectivity in "Endgame" by Samuel Beckett

Summary/Abstract: This article explores a series of dramaturgical aspects of “phenomenological theatre” that bring into play strategies of absorption of the spectator into the universe of fiction. Seeking to further extend the results of previous studies on Samuel Beckett’s “television plays” to his major theatrical works, the author here puts a special emphasis on the Endgame’s mechanisms of repetition and their ability to act as framing devices towards the human essences of the dramatic figures onstage and to turn them into simulacra of (states of) consciousness, to be lived by the spectator. This dramaturgical approach opens towards a hyper-realist configuration of a theatrical event within which characters paradoxically seem to be aware of the spectator’s immediate presence. As an effect of a theatre of non-representation, the subject feels more present to the human figures onstage and closer to discover, in a form of intersubjectivity, the real and fiction as interlaced worlds. The article also points at the configuration of the human nature of the stage presences in terms of symptoms of various deficiencies and reveals through a series of philosophical notions (temporality, being, being in the world, being with…) their framing function and the lived experiences it may give rise to.

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