Citation

Duran R. French Review 2009; 82(5): 982-993.

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(Copyright © 2009)

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Abstract

The theater of the absurd shares many of the concerns common to existentialist philosophy. Samuel Beckett's En attendant Godot, in fact, illustrates several key ideas from Albert Camus's Le Mythe de Sisyphe. Most notably, the function of Godot in Beckett's play appears remarkably consistent with Camus's concept of le suicide philosophique - the imposition of reason on a world entirely devoid of it. Rather than accept the absurdity of their existence, the two protagonists place their entire hope in Godot, an enigmatic figure who never even appears.

Language: en