121. Bohemian Ink : Act Of Creation In Beckett's Catastrophe Act of Creation in beckett s Catastrophe by Michael Guest (guest@ia.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp). Copyright © 1995 by Michael Guest. (Originally http://www.levity.com/corduroy/beckettc.htm

Act of Creation in Beckett's Catastrophe by Michael Guest ( guest@ia.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp Reports of the Faculty of Liberal Arts , Shizuoka University (Japan), Vol. 31 (September 1995). Reproduced here with the permission of the author.) Catastrophe , one of the last plays Beckett wrote, exemplifies the complex polysemy and overlaying of dramatic significance and texture that he achieved through his minimalist approach to theatre. The play is only four pages long and can be performed in twenty to thirty minutes at the outside, yet it generates a reflexivity that reaches to the essence of theatrical meaning-production, and elicits a powerful emotional response to its political themes. The play's dedication to Vaclav Havel - its occasion being Havel's Avignon benefit night - perhaps amplifies the play's uncharacteristically overt politics. [1] A reviewer saw the play as a "parody of agit prop plays as well as a statement of the similarity between a dictatorship . . . and the way in which a director treats his actors." Another thought she heard in the recorded applause at the end, "hoofbeats and the turning wheels of a tumbrel - but . . . maybe that was only an aural hallucination from my own spellbound imagination . . ." [2] While acknowledging the play's social politics, my reading in the present essay tends to a rather less extravagant view of its emotionalism. I lean more toward the description of a third reviewer, who thought of

122. Beckett, Un écrivain Devant Dieu http://www.unice.fr/AGREGATION/becket.html

Avant-Propos Le malheur de la conscience Dieu? Conclusion Avant-Propos Le malheur de la conscience Dieu? Conclusion

123. Citador: http://citador.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/cat_beckett_samuel.html

B eckett, Samuel Arquivo Home Citações Citários CitaLivre ... Leituras Citador .pt Blogue de Divulgação de Citações, Aforismos, Pensamentos e Opiniões Literárias do Site Citador.pt novembro 13, 2003 Quem É Que Tu Amas? - Quem é que tu amas? - continuou Murphy. - Eu, tal como sou. Podes desejar o que não existe, não podes amá-lo. - Nada mal, para um Murphy. - Se assim é, por que diabo te esforças tanto para me modificar? Para poderes deixar de me amar - aqui, a voz subiu e atingiu uma nota bastante honrosa - para deixares de estar condenada a amar-me, para seres dispensada de me amar. Samuel Beckett, in "Murphy" Publicado por pns em 09:20 AM Comentários (5) TrackBack

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