Abstract
Beckett’s characters have a very peculiar perception of reality. They live in a “limbo” between life and death, they have problems with their means of knowledge (they are deaf, mute, paralyzed, mad), they live in tiny spaces (cages, small closed rooms, beds, soil), they can’t manage to have a plain communication with themselves and/or the others. What kind of reality they can see from their “be halved” point of view? And what does it mean for the western rationalist culture? Beckett is aware of the toppling inside the “Cartesian” optimism, but he is not even criticizing the western philosophic system: he is “just” showing us how vain is our faith in this faithful thought.
| Translated title of the contribution | The be-halved Godot: Perception of reality in the beckettian characters |
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| Original language | Italian |
| Journal | Porta di Massa. Laboratorio autogestito di filosofia |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Pages (from-to) | 60-66 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Publication status | Published - 1996 |
Keywords
- Beckett, theatre, comic