A structural analysis reveals that Samuel Beckett’s fictions exhibit a dissociation between the “clarity” of a closed meaning (seeing) and the “obscurity” of saying, below the level of meaning. This nondialectical antithesis serves to remedy an unnameable emptiness, which creation makes visible as the “pure object.”
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques