“Is it not time for my pain-killer?”: Endgame and the Paradoxes of a Meaningless Existence

Auteurs

  • Fernando Aparecido Poiana

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v13i0.3627

Mots-clés :

Endgame, Samuel Beckett, aesthetic

Résumé

This article analyzes the nonsense and violence embedded in the very “logicality” of language in Endgame, and how this aesthetic mechanism
creates an entropic universe in the play. It also focuses on Beckett’s insistence on the vagueness of temporality, on habit and on human memory as products of constant repetition which transfigure the reified empirical world of History into the aesthetic realm of this play, whose central axis revolves around an absurdly repetitive stasis. This repetitive stasis triggers the characters’ gloominess in face of their impotence to break free from their farcical and cyclical repetition of beginnings and endings.

Biographie de l'auteur

  • Fernando Aparecido Poiana
    Fernando Aparecido POIANA graduated from IBILCE, UNESP (The State University of São Paulo), and took the 2007 Fall term at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA, where he focused his studies on Modern British and Irish Literature and Interpretive Theory. He has conducted research on James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and is currently taking a Postgraduate Certificate course in Advanced English Language and Literature at IBILCE, UNESP.

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2011-11-17

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Drama

Comment citer

Poiana, F. A. (2011). “Is it not time for my pain-killer?”: Endgame and the Paradoxes of a Meaningless Existence. ABEI Journal, 13, 61-68. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v13i0.3627