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More like Beckett?

>> No.19710271

>>19710259
Stein.

>> No.19710467

>>19710259
All the noveau-roman gang.
James Joyce

>> No.19710655

Kafka, Flann O'Brien, Barthelme
>>19710271
>>19710467
These too. No one quite like Beckett though

>> No.19710759

>>19710655
No one in the noveau-roman is like the other. But they all share general ideas and influence. Blanchot is most like Beckett and was perhaps an influence or at the very least an inspiration to write what he later did.

>> No.19711026

>>19710467
Any recs from the noveau-roman gang? I've read Les Gommes

>> No.19711028

>>19710259
Eugène Ionesco

>> No.19711077

Beckett is unique among writers. No one compares to him. He's the ultimate literary figure. While not "like Beckett" the only ones able to hold a candle to Beckett are Cormac McCarthy, Hermann Hesse and possibly William H. Gass

>> No.19711107

>>19710259
Pirandello

>> No.19711244

>>19711077
>>19710259
McCarthy and Beckett are two of my favorites too, though I like Cmac a bit more. They contrast well in that they are the terminus of their styles; Beckett wholly internal and at the horizon where thought/fiction is conceived (Blanchot has a very good essay on 'Unnamable'); and McCarthy wholly external, diminutizing the consciousness against external phenomena.
Outer Dark has some of that Beckettian vibe, OP.

>> No.19711257

>>19711026
Thomas the obscure

>> No.19711273

>tfw Waiting for Godot was such a retarded bowl of shit that you will never touch this dude again

>> No.19711274

>>19710259
Jon Fosse

>> No.19711691

>>19711244
>Blanchot has a very good essay on 'Unnamable')
do you have a link? i googled but didn't find what i think you're referring to

>> No.19711694

>>19711273
calling you a midwit would be an unbelievable compliment

>> No.19711699

>>19710259
Krasznahorkai?

>> No.19712070

He stands alone. This annoyed me at first, but at least his work is immensely rewarding to reread. Otherwise I just keep reading other writers and hope they'll have the same effect Beckett had. But no one plays with English or French like him.

Completely dissimilar, but I've just got in to David Markson and am fucking loving his work.

>> No.19712849

>>19710259
Peter Handke

>> No.19712927

>>19712849
Really? Seems like a good writer and I will eventually get around to reading him but the excerpts I have read have been nothing like Beckett.

>> No.19713062

>>19712927
He is like Beckett in the sense that he is a novelist-playwright combo in the modernist tradition who pushes the boundaries of both forms to new extremes

>> No.19713086

>>19711273
you're really missing out. his plays are not good but his novels are some of the greatest ever.

>> No.19713099

>>19710259
It's true that McCarthy is a CIA favorite, but an utterly vacuous one.

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19713112

>>19710259
unironically F. Gardner

>> No.19713115

>>19710259
Thomas Bernhard

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>>19712849
Handkechad gefunden
Es lebe Milošević

>> No.19713196

>>19713112
Holy shit is this actually Gardner? This is fucking kino

>> No.19713210

on some extends Thomas Bernhard

>> No.19713309

>>19711273
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2f8-RhkGQA

watch this. it's supposed to be a comedy. mcgovern and murphy kill it.

>> No.19713697

>>19713099
Meds.

>> No.19713762

>>19711691
It's called 'where now? Who now'.
I can't find a web source for it, but this blogpost goes through the gist of its contents. Unfortunately it's the only one I can find.
http://this-space.blogspot.com/2007/10/always-beginning-again-blanchot-on.html?m=1

>> No.19713789

>>19713086
>his plays are not good
desolate state of affairs. how can allegedly thinking beings hold such opinions?

>> No.19713821

>>19710259
Kafka & Laszlo Krasznahorkai for world view, Stein for the prose of the late beckett (ping, ill seen ill said, etc.)

>> No.19713825

>>19711699
Nothing like him. He is a postmodernist in the vein of Faulkner.

>> No.19713836

>>19713825
????
>Faulkner
>Post-Modern

You should really learn what words mean before you use them.

>> No.19713842

>>19713836
Almost no one on this board knows what postmodern means, they just use it to say that their favorite writer killed modernism or that it is trash because it is new.

>> No.19713852

>>19713836
Nigga I meant he is a postmodern writer with a major influence from Faulkner. Most of his books are about bleak, Hungarian life with long cast of characters. He is like Beckett only in the sense that he rambles on and on with an existential bent, which is not enough.

>> No.19713863

>>19713852
????
>Beckett
>Post-Modern

You should really learn what words mean before you use them.

>> No.19713874

>>19713863
You should learn to read before you post.

>> No.19713900

>>19713874
You should learn to form a sentence without ambiguity and what postmodern means.

>> No.19713933

>>19713900
You should try learning basic English if 'Beckett is postmodern' is what you got from my post

>> No.19713979

>>19713933
>He is a postmodernist in the vein of Faulkner.
>he is a postmodern writer with a major influence from Faulkner
So what exactly do you mean by "He is a postmodernist" and "he is a postmodern writer"?

>> No.19714015

>>19713979
Krasznahorkai is a postmodernist/postmodern writer (it's the same thing) who has influences from Faulkner. In the same way Claude Simon did. I disagree with those suggesting him as "more like Beckett" precisely for that.

>> No.19714027

>>19714015
lol. Sorry, I lost the thread. Your first statement was poorly worded and ambiguous.

>> No.19714037

>>19714027
I mistakenly put in "vein", which I meant more for its connotations of heritage than literary movement.

>> No.19714152

>>19714037
I would say you just constructed the sentence backwards.
>he is in the vein of Faulkner, but postmodern
It happens. Disaster averted, fun was had by all.

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19714188

check lish out. youre welcome

>> No.19714201

>>19710259
Gombrowicz

>> No.19714263

>>19710259
Gombrowicz

>> No.19714266

>>19714188
Definitely check this fucking book out this guy is fucking bananas

>> No.19714467

>>19713842
the fruitures uncertaiun aND T5HE wend is aLWAYS nil.
>ib4pmspider

>> No.19714917

Donald Barthelme

>> No.19715046

>>19710259
Gombrowicz

>> No.19715367

>>19710259
Glad to see Beckett is being more appreciated on /lit/. I think he was the major writer of the second part of the 20th century, and very clearly so.
Anyway, a writer who was very influenced by him is Jon Fosse, who's still alive and not very old. He's a Norwegian playwright and novelist.

>> No.19715585

>>19715367
>Jon Fosse
Best work / best intro work?

>> No.19715603

>>19715585
Trilogy / Trilogy

>> No.19715623

>>19713697
Don't bring the Italians into this, asshole. They've produced some damn fine work and I'll be damned if I let you drag their name through the mud like you did with the Germans and Russians. The Italians are good people (mostly) and they deserve to be treated with respect.

>> No.19715631

>>19715623
They are lazy and overly animated.

>> No.19715640

>>19715631
They are just gregarious.

>> No.19716095

Walser? His characters are similar to early-Beckett somnambulists. Also, deadpan. Idk.

>> No.19717693

What's your favorite work by Beckett lads

>> No.19717992

>>19711694
kek