Free Content SCHOPENHAUER'S RECOMMENDATIONS TO BECKETT

Author: Gottfried Büttner

Source: Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, SAMUEL BECKETT: ENDLESSNESS IN THE YEAR 2000/FIN SANS FIN EN L´AN 2000 edited by/édité par Angela Moorjani and/et Carola Veit. , pp. 114-122(9)

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As a young man, Beckett read Schopenhauer again and again, and not only because of his beautiful style, despite his claims to the contrary. Schopenhauer's pessimism was very close to Beckett's own, and he was to heed the three ways of enduring the misery of existence that Schopenhauer recommended: art, or aesthetic contemplation, compassion, and resignation. This essay explores the ways in which Schopenhauer's thought made it possible for Beckett to create his literary work and to come to grips with his own life.

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