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What writers are reminiscent of Samuel Beckett?

>> No.20399927

>>20399882
The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt is quite good and reminded me of Beckett's plays. It's not so minimalist as Beckett, but the dialogue has a similar flavor.

>> No.20400070

>>20399882
I found Alain Robbe-Grillet's novel "Dans le labyrinthe" to be reminiscent of Beckett. I would also make a very tenuous connection between Watt and The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein in terms of the "exhaustibility" of the prose.

Though these authors aren't reminiscent of Beckett, I believe someone who enjoys Beckett will enjoy the works of Nathalie Sarraute and Raymond Queneau. Sarraute for the depth and difficulty of her work. Queneau for the comedy and inventiveness of his work.

>> No.20400090

>>20399882
You have to specifiy. Beckett went through very different phases and styles.

>> No.20400095

>>20399882
Camus and Kafka

>> No.20400102

>>20399882
>reminiscent
You can just use “similar,” OP.

>> No.20400109

Urs Allemann

>> No.20400114

>>20400102
Those are not the same word.

>> No.20400124

>>20400114
Go on, then. Give us the meaningful distinction.

>> No.20400126
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>>20400114
OH NO NO NO NO NO NO NO. I know you love to use the thesaurus on your Macbook for every single word, but you are a retarded faggot.

>> No.20400141

>>20400124
Marlowe is similar to Shakespeare.
Shakespeare isn't reminiscent of Marlowe.
Marlowe isn't reminiscent of Shakespeare.
OP most likely asks for a worthy heir with a positive relation to Beckett.

>> No.20400147

>>20400141
Genuine retard.

>> No.20400166

>>20400147
You just don't know the meaning of the words.

>> No.20400168

>>20400141
wtf would you want to read an author only to be reminded of another? You make yourself aware of the similarities to a previous writer, and then proceed to read them on their own terms. Is /lit/ really this braindead?

>> No.20400177

>>20400166
M8, that’s you. Literally everyone thinks you are a moron. Why do you browse this board?

>> No.20400237

read coetzee

>> No.20400280

>>20400177
"m8", not OP but you should really stop trying to gatekeep him for using another stupid word instead of your stupid word. For God's sake this board is already enough a wasteland as it is.

>> No.20400432

>>20399882
Gombrowicz
Bernhard
Krasznahorkai
Blanchot
Bove
Leopardi

More like the mentioned above?

>> No.20400441

>>20400432
Lmaoooo no

>> No.20400453

>>20400280
Cry more, little bitch (m8).

>> No.20400514

>>20400432
Seconding Bernhard and Blanchot

>> No.20400529

>>20400514
Not even remotely similar to Beckett. You just started reading and it is obvious

>> No.20400531

>>20400529
They all have similar themes and that's what counts.

>> No.20400537

>>20400531
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH good one

>> No.20400549

>>20399882
Literally Harold Pinter.

>> No.20400551

>>20400549
Seconding.

>> No.20400948

Looks like dav8d cronenberg

>> No.20401049

>>20400549
This, Tom Stoppard, Noel Coward and Edward Albee, and Woody Allen were all also directly influenced by Beckett.

>> No.20401056

>>20400549
And the award for most unnecessary use of the word 'literally' goes to...

>> No.20401061

>>20400549
Pinter was a Beckett wannabe.

>> No.20401464

>>20399882
Blanchot
Roger Laporte

>> No.20401468

>>20401464
>Blanchot
Tell me you have not read him without telling me you have noy read him hahaha

>> No.20401532

>>20401468
I have read all his récits nigger.

>> No.20401554

>>20401532
>this posturing
Clearly, you did not if you are saying he is “reminiscent” of Beckett

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>>20401468
>>20401464
I like Blanchot but I recommend that everyone familiar with him and Kafka read Blanchot's 'Most High' because it's basically just Blanchot ripping off Kafka and not being as good.

It really highlights the small but crucial difference between 'pretty good and interesting' and 'actually Kafka-level mysteriously good'.

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20401923

>>20400095
how?

>> No.20401928

>>20401061

And yet he won the Noble Prize in 2005...

>> No.20402085

>>20400549
And Mamet (by way of Pinter)

>> No.20402093

That Scottish guy who pissed off everybody when he won the Booker

>> No.20402121
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20402121

>>20402093
This ‘ard cunt

>> No.20402135

>>20401923
Beckett, Kafka, and Camus are all absurdist writers. Camus coined the term absurdism - which incorporates elements of surrealism and existentialism - and deemed Kafka an absurdist for obvious reasons. Beckett was deeply influenced by both Kafka and Camus and belonged to the “theatre of the absurd” movement inspired by their works.

>> No.20402146

>>20400070
>>20400432
This. Flann O'Brien. Some of Robert Walser.

>> No.20402173

>>20399882
Dante, Geulincx, Joyce, Berkeley, that guy who he ripped WfG from.

>> No.20402579

Bump for more answers. Thomas the obscure by Blanchot

>> No.20402630

>>20402579
Nope. Retard.

>> No.20402634

>>20399882
>reminiscent of
>reminiscent of
>reminiscent of
>reminiscent of
>reminiscent of

>> No.20402677

>>20399882
St Augustine unironically

>> No.20402679

>>20401061
They were also good friends.

>> No.20402752

>>20402630
>>20401468
>>20401554
Are you just saying this because Blanchot came first? It would still be correct to say he’s “reminiscent” of Beckett if you’re coming at it from the perspective of someone who read Beckett first. If you’re just trying to pull some stupid gotcha shit on people who were so “unsophisticated” as to point out the incredibly obvious similarity between two authors who are closer to each other than to any other author in very significant ways, then just kys I guess? What an absolutely pathetic, obnoxious and above all worthless way to participate in the discussion.

>> No.20402757

>>20400177
nta ,but I don't think he's a moron

>> No.20402801

Jonathan Swift's Battel of the Books, Gottfried Benn, Hadewijch, Spare's The Book of Pleasure, Leiris' Nights as Day, Days as Night, Froissart, Ulillillia, Sartor Resartus, Rabelais