SAMUEL BECKETT ET SON MESSAGE UNIVERSEL
Samuel Beckett and his universal message

Author(s): Valentina Bianchi
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Vasiliana ’98
Summary/Abstract: In his seminal articles Le monde et le pantaloon and Peintres de l’empêchement, written in the 1940s about the art of brothers Abraham and Gerardus Van Velde, Samuel Beckett talks about painting and the crisis of representation. He concludes that, nowadays, the object is undressed and what is left to represent on stage blocks the very representation. This is the source of his characters’ indeterminism, and their feeling of perpetual confinement; and this is the barrier that marrs human condition. Is there a way out? The playwright’s reply allows us to envisage the possibility of escaping this prison, and indeterminism, through a kind of avant-garde art about acceptance which, in the absence of the object, makes a new object visible.

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