Word: beckett
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Relativism brought the underground man into his own--in Europe, with Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Beckett, Aichinger, Sartre, Mann and Pirandello; in America with Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Ellison, Capote and Salinger. The antihero, too, searched for unified meaning, but the narrative that held him was all about divisions, schisms and self-inspection. He sought to be by himself, like a god. In Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities and Richard Wright's The Outsider, protagonists become serial killers out of the desire to be alone...
Peeping warily into the new century, the cultural traditionalist (anyone over the age of 40) feels like saying, with Estragon in Waiting for Godot, "I can't go on like this." He forgets the brave and cheeky response Samuel Beckett, last of the classic modernists, gave to Vladimir: "That's what you think...
Would it be too modernist of me--too retro--to wish that for just this one fleeting moment between millenniums, Samuel Beckett could be my Dick Clark...
...shape of the playwright's career is to have huge sunbursts of energy early on and then to rather simmer away." Hare admits, "I find myself with almost an abundance of subject matter." And he writes every day, no matter what. "It's heresy to say so, but the Beckett path--whereby you start out writing many words and you end up writing few--is, to me, deeply unattractive." Judging by recent events, there's little danger Hare will go down that unhappy road...
...rate, the presence of Jones and Channing filled the Loeb and raised a considerable sum for the Poet’s Theatre. The Theatre was started in 1951 and debuted works by Samuel Beckett, Dylan Thomas and others. It burned down in 1960 (now we buy our Coop books on its ashes) and was revived to a slow start in 1985. With the revenue from last week's performance, hopefully, some really vigorous and through theater will follow in Jones and Channing's generously donated footsteps...