God Bothering Beckett

IF 0.2 4区哲学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

Literature and Theology Pub Date : 2020-12-26 DOI:10.1093/litthe/fraa034

C. Conti

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Abstract

In this article I consider the bearing of theology on Samuel Beckett’s work in terms of what he called ‘the shape’ of the idea. At the heart of Beckett’s negative aesthetic program is the relation of art to truth. The Beckettian subject and object are the remnants of a denarration that foregrounds the pains his narrators endure on their quest for aseity or inexistence. The narrative struggle to tell a story that cannot be told without falsifying it entails a relation to the absolute centring on the experience of incomprehensibility and pain. In Beckett, God can no more come to expression than the self, making the connection between the two impossibilities all but inescapable.

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上帝打扰贝克特

在这篇文章中，我考虑神学对塞缪尔·贝克特的作品的影响，他称之为思想的“形状”。贝克特否定美学纲领的核心是艺术与真理的关系。贝克特的主体和客体是叙事的残余，突显了叙述者在寻求安全或不存在时所承受的痛苦。叙事努力讲述一个不伪造就无法讲述的故事，它需要与绝对的关系，以不可理解和痛苦的经验为中心。在贝克特的作品中，上帝和自我一样无法表达，这使得这两种不可能之间的联系几乎是不可避免的。

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期刊介绍： Literature and Theology, a quarterly peer-review journal, provides a critical non-confessional forum for both textual analysis and theoretical speculation, encouraging explorations of how religion is embedded in culture. Contributions should address questions pertinent to both literary study and theology broadly understood, and be consistent with the Journal"s overall aim: to engage with and reshape traditional discourses within the studies of literature and religion, and their cognate fields - biblical criticism, literary criticism, philosophy, politics, culture studies, gender studies, artistic theory/practice, and contemporary critical theory/practice.