贝克特的当下

IF 0.3 4区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI:10.3366/JOBS.2021.0326
Rodney X. Sharkey
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作为南爱尔兰一名舒适的中产阶级新教徒,贝克特很适合过Badiou讽刺地称之为“值得拥有的身体”的生活(59)然而,贝克特超越了这种家庭舒适,近距离见证了20世纪欧洲历史上一些最具破坏性的时刻。本文认为,他的作品既是这段历史的表现,也是对其内容的复杂回应,尤其是在其形式上,西奥多·阿多诺(Theodore Adorno)提出,“未解决的现实对立在艺术品中作为形式的内在问题回归”(7)举例说明了阿多诺的主张,即“审美形式是沉淀的语境”(9)贝克特的作品通过重述历史对立,仍然破坏了西方晚期资本商品化贫困、沉默和抗议,以及存在和它的毁灭。结果是一部作品继续呈现,供读者考虑,选择政治的参数,这些参数被作品本身所承载的动荡历史的痕迹反复实例化。正如贝克特笔下人物所面临的决定反映了20世纪末欧洲社会所面临的那样,现在,当当代世界在新自由资本主义和新冠肺炎的阴影下挣扎时,他的作品也引起了共鸣©《贝克特研究杂志》
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Beckett's Present Moments
As a comfortable middle-class Protestant in Southern Ireland, Beckett was well placed to live the life of what Badiou ironically refers to as ‘the deserving body’ (59) However, Beckett moved beyond such home comforts to witness at close hand some of the most disruptive moments of twentieth century European history This essay proposes that his work is both a manifestation of that history and a complex response to it in its content, and, particularly, in its form In Aesthetic Theory, Theodore Adorno proposes that ‘the unsolved antagonisms of reality return in artworks as immanent problems of form’ (7) Exemplifying Adorno's proposition that ‘aesthetic form is sedimented context’ (9) Beckett's work remains disruptive of Western late capital commodification through the restatement of historical antagonisms that involve characters having to choose between privilege and impoverishment, quietism and protest, and being and its obliteration The result is a body of work that continues to present, for its readers’ consideration, the parameters of a politics of choice which are repeatedly instantiated by the traces of the tumultuous history the work carries within itself As the decisions facing Beckett's characters reflected those faced by late twentieth century European society, so too his work now resonates in the present moment as the contemporary world struggles in the shadow of neo-liberal capitalism and COVID-19 © Journal of Beckett Studies
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