Интертекстуалност Изгубљених: Бекетов дијалог са Дантеом, Ламартином, Платоном и Волтером
Intertextuality of The Lost Ones: Beckett’s Dialogue with Dante, Lamartine, Plato, and Voltaire

Summary/Abstract: This comparative study analyzes the intertextual connections between Samuel Beckett’s short prose and the works of Dante Alighieri, Alphonse de Lamartine, Voltaire, and Plato. The paper is focused on the quotations from The Divine Comedy,The Poetic Meditations, Candide, and The Symposium, which are present in Beckett’s late story entitled The Lost Ones (Le Dépeupleur). Based on Gérard Genette’s analysis of intertextuality, paratextuality, and other forms of transtextuality, this study interprets how Beckett describes a strange cylindrical world, inhabited by lonely creatures that are searching for their lost ones: by creating an ironic distancefrom the visions of love represented in the works of Dante, Lamartine, Plato, and Voltaire. In addition to offering a detailed analysis of the allusions and other forms of intertextual relations, the paper points to the differences between the paratextuality of the French version of Beckett’s story entitled Le Dépeupleur and the paratextuality of its later English version entitled The Lost Ones.

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