Samuel Beckett’s Plays: Creating an adequate aesthetic
Samuel Beckett’s Plays: Creating an adequate aesthetic

Summary/Abstract: The article endeavors to describe the main features of Samuel Beckett’s aesthetic and traces some of the contemporary artistic and social developments that influenced the creation of a new aesthetic, a new aesthetic which reflected a new world. The article emphasizes that Surrealism is an evident impetus in the creation of Beckett’s aesthetics. The emphasis that Surrealism put on the hegemony of the inner life over the outer life, is important to understand the frequent use by Beckett of the proceedings of the unconscious thought. The impact of this aesthetic premise can be discerned in every dramatic work of Samuel Beckett. Beckett’s aesthetic in some of its important aspects recalls the aesthetic of cubist and abstract expressionist painters, naturally, keeping in mind the distinctions between the modes of expression of various forms of art.

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