Samuel Beckett’s German inclination
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-3-65-73
Abstract
The article’s topic is formation of the artistic world of S. Beckett. Along with such factors of the “education” of the Irish writer as the world of the ideas and novels of D. Joyce, as a close acquaintance with traditions of the French drama and poetics of the “absurd” that he himself formed, the influence of the German culture and literature was an important aspect of his becoming a writer.
German literature inspired Beckett by phenomena of the everyday culture, language, and the works and philosophical ideas of such thinkers as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Hölderlin. From them S. Beckett perceived and artistically reflected in his work an idea of a tragic solitude of an artist, his being misunderstood in love, an ironic distance in regard to the very idea of tragedy and the idea of a “superman” as the final stage in the formation of a “true” person. In the German language, Beckett often borrowed both the colloquial racy vocabulary and the structural organization of his works. The author believes that Beckett’s interest in intellectually close Schopenhauer and Nietzsche lead him to the theme of antiquity, inseparable from German culture. That is why one can see their common views on such fundamental concepts of existence as the cyclicality and inanition, death of God, solitude.
About the Author
O. V. Zatonskaya
Povolzhsky Institute of Management named after P.A. Stolypin – the branch of Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Olga V. Zatonskaya
bld. 23/25, Sobornaya St., Saratov, 410031
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Zatonskaya O.V. Samuel Beckett’s German inclination. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2021;(3):65-73. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-3-65-73
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