Larry, I'm interested in your assertion that Beckett was evil. I entirely disagree. He was a hero of the French resistance, and a truly great writer. So what gives? Or is someone playing silly games? Here's a quote from Richard Ellman which I think, for me, encapsulates what Beckett's about as a writer:
Samuel Beckett [..] has given a voice to the decrepit and maimed and inarticulate, men and women at the end of their tether, past pose or pretense, past claim of meaningful existence. He seems to say that only there and then, as metabolism lowers, amid God's paucity, not his plenty, can the core of the human condition be approached.
sjc
Well, it was half-joking. Honestly, I don't know what it means to all an artist "evil" just on account of his art--actually, it seems pretty obviously meaningless. But I do find Beckett's art absolutely repulsive, precisely
because he seems to think, as yer man says, the only way we can approach "the core of the human condition" is by looking at the lowest of the low. Fer cryin out loud, why think that. --
LMS
OK, we disagree. I also think he can be hilariously funny: his pastiche of Eliot's The Waste Land is devastating...
sjc
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