Wokół problematyki genezy w Czekając na Godota Samuela Becketta
Elaborating Issues of Genesis in the Play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Summary/Abstract: This sketch focuses on the problem of genesis as it figures in the play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett.The first part presents the notion of genesis in formal terms, listing the factors that had an influence on the emergence of the tragicomic in Beckett. These consist of a biographical aspect relating to his stay in the south of France during the Second World War, and some cultural inspirations of a philosophical, religious and literary sort. Beckett’s fascination with a phrase deriving from the Confessions of Saint Augustine influenced the work from the point of view of its formal concerns, and acting under its influence, he sought to create a unity of form and content.In the next part of the sketch, the issue of the genesis of mankind is raised. Humankind, afflicted by loneliness since the dawn of time, has sought to reverse this fate — by conceiving Reason and Intellect, and by starting a dialogue aimed at eliminating that very loneliness and despair. Yet this did not bring the expected results, so in response the idea of a transcendent being was created. Ever since that moment, humanity has found itself waiting for the latter to appear, and for the reversal of its fate that this was supposed to bring.

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