/lit/ - Literature

Does anyone actually like this guy? Waiting for Godot was ok, but seems like he is just a mandatory reference to look cool when you talk about more popular dudes like Joyce and Cioran. Seems like his prose gets almost no attention these days.

Why don't you talk about him

>>21800292
>the only two major influences in postmodern fiction are Faulkner and Hemingway
Do burgers really not read anything written by someone who wasn't born in America?

I want to write Absurdist fiction but I don't know how to start.

I've read Beckett, Camus, Genet etc. so I get the genre in principle but I'm having a hard time grafting it into a story.

What do?

Also if anyone has recs for recent absurdist fiction I'd also be interested.

Faulkner's father.

Would you regard Beckett as a French writer?

Dimestore Kafka

Dimestore Cioran

I judge books by how cool the author looks.

Is there a chart for Samuel Beckett? Or else which works of his should I read

What writers are reminiscent of Samuel Beckett?

More like Beckett?

What’s the deal with this guy? Is he like DFW where people just pretend to like him to sound smart?

I read waiting for Godot and started Murphy. He just leaves everything really open ended so lit autists can interpret anything out of it right?? Redpill me.

What was his endgame?

So, what comes after him?
Having read his Trilogy and his plays, it feels as though there is nothing left to do.
Who are the writers who have taken Beckett seriously and tried to advance the novel in newer directions?
I am familiar with the nouveaux romanciers, with Peter Handke's, Pinter's, and Fosse's theater, as well as Bernhard's monologues and Krasznahorkai's long descriptions, and I haven't yet explored the Oulipo group, but it looks promising. Still, who are the others?
Who are the Anglo authors influenced by Beckett? I read the Americans, like Pynchon, McCarthy, and Roth, and it's clear they are writing as if Beckett hadn't really existed, ignoring the challenges that the Beckettian view puts against the traditional conceptions of the novel (fixed characters, stories etc., the stuff that Robbe-Grillet challenged in Pour un nouveau roman). France's most famous writer, Houellebecq, clearly doesn't care about it either, and writes sociological soap operas instead.
I like them, it's fun, sure, but who are the writers that are producing new works following the harder, but much more interesting, Beckettian route? Do you know any names? Are there any more recent ones? Or is the challenge against the traditional novel dead, and the old forms triumphed due to their public appeal among the ordinary masses? Because all the stuff I see among the contemporary 'best-sellers' is either realism, magic realism, distopian realism, hysteric realism, or some kind of faulknerian polyphony that ends up being very old-fashioned too.

Please, feel free to recommend authors who you think might fit into that description, as well as to provide your own thoughts upon Beckett and the contemporary novel.

>>18297735
>I'm sorry, son, I didn't realise human shittin consciousness had bloody chapter breaks...

What other plays are like Beckett's Waiting for Godot? I like this theater where there's abstract dialog that seems to cut to the heart of the human experience, without relying on historical narratives, action, or entertainment as much as being a philosophical meditation.

Where do I begin with Samuel Beckett?

books or writers for literary fashion victims

Where to start with Samuel Beckett?

Samuel Beckett is the greatest fiction writer of all time, simple as that.

>>14832891
I'm guessing you've never read/seen a Samuel Beckett play?

>"What should I do with that by which I do not become immortal?"
His question is still relevant.

why doesn't /lit/ talk about him?