/lit/ - Literature

>>18540994
His disciple.

He was an anti natalist, was he not? Endgame pretty much proves that beyond a reasonable doubt with lines like "accursed fornicator" "accursed progenitor" "a potential procreator" "why did you engender me?" and the like, no?

Beckett is far and away the greatest author to have ever lived. This man represents ultimate cuilmination of literature. Thousands of years of poetry, prose and theatre were on a trajectory that was bending toward Samuel Beckett. Before him, literature was ascending. During his reign, it plateaued. After his death it went into sharp decline. Beckett's work is utter genius and as close to flawless as anyone's work could ever be

Why does /lit/ never discuss absurdism? It's right up /lit/'s alley but I've never seen anyone talk about it.

Basic definition of absurdism (iirc from Artaud) is 'the banal shot through with atrocity), i.e. a kind of surrealist horror expressed when normal existence is examined.

Read a bit of French absurdist drama in college but never branched much out beyond that, I think I'd like to.

Some good stuff includes:

>Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5zoztwfs40

>Les Bonnes/The Maids (Jean Genet)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll8K6SqTEuo

>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Tom Stoppard)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YHHHEg3ioc


For more high-level theory, I recommend

>The Theatre and its Double (Antoinin Artaud)
>The Myth of Sisyphus (Albert Camus)

Anyone want to recommend me some fiction from this genre? I know Beckett wrote some before focusing on the theatre but I don't know much beyond that

Joyce and Beckett were the most fashionable couple of the 20th century

Where should I start with Samuel Beckett?

How do I look like this when I get older fitlitizens?

where to start with samuel beckett, namely his novels?

Beckett thread? I just finished Molloy (those last lines are up there with If on a winter's night a traveller), any recs on what to continue with after I read the rest of the trilogy?

What's your favorite Beckett play?

Mine's Rockaby. Brilliantly written, there's a sense of dread that just never lets up. Beckett could have directed horror films.

>Is there anyone more pretentious

Yes.

>>5057661
>What makes a great short story?

dead, white, male authors.

“The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.” - Beckett

Why was Beckett so based and hilarious?

as ascetic as possible, so everybody can see it, no hocuspocus

joyce is ultrapleb