Beckett

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mostly mentions Beckett in passing, as a reference point for the theatre of the absurd. He most often pairs him with Adamov, whom Beckett helps to place within avant-garde theatre12, and he lists him in a triad of authors of that theatre3. In 2021 he specifies that Beckett represents its tragic version4. He also cites Beckett, especially Waiting for Godot, as a figure of modern anxiety. He does so in varied contexts: a session on Nerval's Angélique, the reading of Kafka's "An Imperial Message"5 and the 2020 interview introducing the workshops. In a 2020 session, he links these twentieth-century anxieties to tercets that, in his view, foreshadow them. The passages contain no sustained reading of the work: Beckett serves as a point of comparison, both to characterise a theatrical current and to name a certain experience of waiting and anxiety specific to the century.

1. 1Dominique Pagani sur Michel Clouscard - Les chemins de la praxis 2/28 Dec 2015 · 38:32
2. 2#11 • Retour aux logiques du sujet21 Jun 2020 · 1:09:58
3. 3Dominique Pagani - Hölderlin, poésie et politique19 Mar 2022 · 16:46
4. 4Cynisme de l'extrême centre ou héroïsme épistémique ? La dialectique du milieu • Dominique Pagani20 May 2021 · 21:35
5. 5#5.9 Kafka Un message impérial29 Jul 2019 · 7:39

Summary produced automatically from 12 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.