Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Yonara Dantas de. The (im)potency of experience and the individual in endgame. Rev. Inter Ação [online]. 2014, vol.39, n.2, pp.355-378. ISSN 0101-7136.  https://doi.org/10.5216/ia.v39i2.31712.

This essay revisits the concepts of experience and the individual in Adorno, Horkheimer and Benjamin, in which they treat of the fragmentary and impotent character of the way they are presented in modernity. These considerations are our starting point for a reflection on Samuel Beckett's play, Endgame which, particularly for Adorno, is a realistic denouncing of the deteriorating conditions of the formation of the individual. It is by means of the form of parody in the drama that Beckett exposes the disruption of the possibilities of contact between people and between people, nature and the world. The (im)potency of experience and the individual is the price to be paid by humanity, which follows its course in progress at the cost of the death of everyone while still alive.

Keywords : Experience; Individual; Frankfurt School; Modern Theatre.

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