Medytacja nad Pustką. Konteksty buddyjskie w „Końcówce" i „Szczęśliwych dniach” Samuela Becketta
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2004
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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Meditations on emptiness. The Buddhist contexts in Samuel Becketts's „The Endgame" and „Happy Days"
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Thanks to Buddhist contexts, present in S. Beckett's two long plays (The Endgame and The Happy
Days) we understand that death, signifying the ultimate Nothingness and Emptiness appears to be
the change of the perceiving substance, which getting rid of the body, is joined with the nonbodily
content of the things. Beckett's doxology of the light makes it that since Life is compared to
the flame, Death depicts its extinguishing, but at the same time the value of eschatological hope is
expressed through Buddhist motifs (karma of the Yoga, little Buddha, nirvana, the wheel of Samsara
and the like). Death is for Winnie, Hamm and Clove an internal act of transgression, touching
directly the dying person, but at the same time the heroes of Beckett's plays transfer their
feeling connected .with dying to the external observer (the spectator). And so Beckett achieved the
dimension of the most important function of the theatre of „participation" and „initiation". Recognising
Buddhist contexts in Beckett's plays, we accept Death as one of the stages of the biological
cycle - being a peculiar kind of repayment of a debt to nature.
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Przestrzenie Teorii, nr 3/4, 2004, s. 337-367
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978-83-232-2077-0