So I was reading through Martin Esslin's list of plays that embody absurdism.
I thoroughly enjoyed pic related Waiting For Godot. However, I can't for the live of me figure out why he picked it as an example of relativizing absurdism.
What am I missing here, /lit/?
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>>8090978
Relativizing in what sense?
I suppose I would understand it in that the play changes from moment to moment between a perception of whether the events going on have profound meaning or are simply absurd.
Compared to the early surrealists and Dada movement in which the aim is present a breakdown of all meaning Beckett seems to rather have a sort of impressionist approach. I would struggle to call Waiting for Godot an absurdist play at all, it could be interpreted to forward a Camus type absurdist philosophy but I think its far more historically aware and constructive than that.
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>>8091018
Why do you assume OP is a lesbian?
>>8091038
1. Relativizing here is in the philosophical sense i.e Relativism
2. “The great success of Waiting for Godot,” Beckett said, “had arisen from a misunderstanding: critic and public alike were busy interpreting in allegorical or symbolic terms a play which strove at all costs to avoid definition.”
