In a message dated 7/24/12 11:26:21 AM, [email protected] writes:
> okay - this having been said - i'm curious if anyone here has any > insights > into the aesthetics of incompleteness and also that of of "nothing" (an > example of the latter being both the idea that what happens in a beckett > play is nothing , and nothing happens in Cage's 4'33") These strategies(?) > seem applicable to all cultural production - music, poetry, film, > photography, etc. > > Actually, Beckett is my bete noire in theater, just as that other "nothing" guy, Martin Heidegger, is in philosophy. A somewhat comparable phenomenon was the nouveau roman that briefly flourished in France about sixty years ago. Starvation fare, that. Similarly short-lived was the surrealistic sorty of Donald Barthelme et al in the U.S.. Every genre seems to let fly larks like Barthelme, Ionesco, and Cage from time to time. Most of these exotic departures fail to found any enduring school or style.
