Word: godot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sensation-hungry hundreds of let's -go-down-to-the-Villagers. But what was fundamentally wrong with the play remains fundamentally wrong in the film it is not life, it is not art, it is not interesting. Philosophically, it is an uninspired restatement of Waiting for Godot; esthetically, it is just a drop in the Beckett...
...Plus Godot. In view of its calculated mystifications, it may seem a trifle absurd to argue that this school of playwriting is seriously engaged in a radical criticism of the modern world and in a religious quest for the meaning of man. But in a provocative new book (The Theatre of the Absurd; Anchor Books; $1.45), Critic Martin Esslin argues just that and does it convincingly...
...isolation that even conflict is impossible." Although Brecht abandoned the theater of the absurd for social protest, his isolation theme has been endlessly restated by the absurdists in terms of man's inability to communicate with, and relate to, his fellow man. In 1952, in Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett defined the assumption underlying the metaphysical quest of the theater of the absurd: the absence of God and the emptiness of God-bereft man. Beckett's theater is one of deep existential anguish: "The boredom of living is replaced by the suffering of being." Beckett's writing...
...perhaps only in extreme repetition is there innovation. This is the logical and nihilistic end-point of the avant-gardists' idolatry of innovation and interest. Young is not looking for a new style or a fresh vision of reality but is just killing time. He is not waiting for Godot, he is just waiting...
...notion of God? The narrator hardly knows and finally hardly cares. He cannot face Pete even when he bulls his way down to the first row. At book's end it is hard to tell whether he really wants to be hired or not. Like the men in Godot he is waiting...