Tuesday 27 April 2010
Beckett and "the absurd"
"... moral values are inaccessible. And they cannot be defined. In order to define them, you would have to pass judgement, which is impossible. That's why I could never agree with the notion of the theatre of the absurd. It involves a value judgment. You cannot even speak about truth. That's what's so distressful. Paradoxically, it is through form that the artist may find some kind of a way out. By giving form to formlesssness. It is only in that way, perhaps, that some underlying affirmation may be found."
Beckett and "the absurd" over on This Space.
Posted by Mark Thwaite
Tags: blogosphere, samuel beckett
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