See your email. Waiting for Godot is the most prominent play of the Theatre of the Absurd movement. An apt Bultema entry! I told you he'd wake us up.
It's cutting off more than just the rhs side of Stephen's video. Less seriously but still: the top of my head in my picture is also cut off. That is where my brains are located. They say.
The Absurd in these plays takes the form of man’s reaction to a world apparently without meaning or man as a puppet controlled or menaced by an invisible outside force.
The Theatre of the Absurd is commonly associated with Existentialism, and Existentialism was an influential philosophy in Paris during the rise of the Theatre of the Absurd; however, to call it Existentialist theatre is problematic for many reasons. It gained this association partly because it was named (by Esslin) after the concept of "absurdism" advocated by Albert Camus, a philosopher commonly called Existentialist though he frequently resisted that label. Absurdism is most accurately called Existentialist in the way Franz Kafka's work is labeled Existentialist: it embodies an aspect of the philosophy though the writer may not be a committed follower.[38] As Tom Stoppard said in an interview, "I must say I didn't know what the word 'existential' meant until it was applied to Rosencrantz. And even now existentialism is not a philosophy I find either attractive or plausible. But it's certainly true that the play can be interpreted in existential terms, as well as in other terms."[39] Many of the Absurdists were contemporaries with Jean-Paul Sartre, the philosophical spokesman for Existentialism in Paris, but few Absurdists actually committed to Sartre's own Existentialist philosophy, as expressed in Being and Nothingness, and many of the Absurdists had a complicated relationship with him. Sartre praised Genet's plays, stating that for Genet "Good is only an illusion. Evil is a Nothingness which arises upon the ruins of Good".[40]
Sorry, I'm thick and sick this morning. Now I get it. You posted, not Bultema. He's still recovering from yesterday's meeting with Stergios. So am I. Be considerate and give us time.
Appropriate indeed. Don't get me started now on Camus, Sartre, etc. Ah, Albert Camus, La Peste. First French novel I read when I was innocent 15 or so, thin book, brilliant but very heavy stuff. My most recent absurd accomplishment, last year: Jonathan Little's controversial "Les Bienveillantes". All 900 pages in French(available in English translation as The Kindly Ones). Great subject for a posting, that book.
hmmm, interesting - cutting off the rhs of the embedded video for some reason
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See your email. Waiting for Godot is the most prominent play of the Theatre of the Absurd movement. An apt Bultema entry! I told you he'd wake us up.
ReplyDeleteIt's cutting off more than just the rhs side of Stephen's video. Less seriously but still: the top of my head in my picture is also cut off. That is where my brains are located. They say.
The Absurd in these plays takes the form of man’s reaction to a world apparently without meaning or man as a puppet controlled or menaced by an invisible outside force.
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Théâtre de l'Absurde
The Theatre of the Absurd is commonly associated with Existentialism, and Existentialism was an influential philosophy in Paris during the rise of the Theatre of the Absurd; however, to call it Existentialist theatre is problematic for many reasons. It gained this association partly because it was named (by Esslin) after the concept of "absurdism" advocated by Albert Camus, a philosopher commonly called Existentialist though he frequently resisted that label. Absurdism is most accurately called Existentialist in the way Franz Kafka's work is labeled Existentialist: it embodies an aspect of the philosophy though the writer may not be a committed follower.[38] As Tom Stoppard said in an interview, "I must say I didn't know what the word 'existential' meant until it was applied to Rosencrantz. And even now existentialism is not a philosophy I find either attractive or plausible. But it's certainly true that the play can be interpreted in existential terms, as well as in other terms."[39]
Many of the Absurdists were contemporaries with Jean-Paul Sartre, the philosophical spokesman for Existentialism in Paris, but few Absurdists actually committed to Sartre's own Existentialist philosophy, as expressed in Being and Nothingness, and many of the Absurdists had a complicated relationship with him. Sartre praised Genet's plays, stating that for Genet "Good is only an illusion. Evil is a Nothingness which arises upon the ruins of Good".[40]
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ReplyDeleteSorry, I'm thick and sick this morning. Now I get it. You posted, not Bultema. He's still recovering from yesterday's meeting with Stergios. So am I. Be considerate and give us time.
ReplyDeleteAppropriate indeed. Don't get me started now on Camus, Sartre, etc. Ah, Albert Camus, La Peste. First French novel I read when I was innocent 15 or so, thin book, brilliant but very heavy stuff. My most recent absurd accomplishment, last year: Jonathan Little's controversial "Les Bienveillantes". All 900 pages in French(available in English translation as The Kindly Ones). Great subject for a posting, that book.
...i look forward to your post on that subject
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ReplyDelete..he, he, he
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