Narrative fragments and story-telling in Samuel Beckett's Endgame

Anlatı ve öykü anlatma bilgi, anlam, gelenek ve kimlik gibi unsurları içeren insana özgü önemlikavramlardır. Samuel Beckettin genellikle öykülemeye ve anlatı ya yabancı ve uzak olduğu düşünülen Endgame(Oyunun Sonu) adlı oyunundaki karakterler bütün başarısızlıklarına karşın öyküler yaratmaya ve anlatmayagirişerek öykü anlatma edimini sorunsallaştırılar. Durağan bir şimdiki zamana hapsolan bu oyun kişileri genede öyküler, anılar, fıkralar anlatmaktan ve yaşadıkları boşluğu doldurmak için diyaloga girmekten geridurmazlar. Bu makalenin amacı Beckettin oyununu zaman, iktidar ve kimlik bağlamında incelemektir.

Samuel Beckett in oyunun sonu adlı yapıtında anlatı parçaları ve öykü anlatma

Narrative and story-telling are important human concepts encapsulating such issues as cognition,meaning, tradition and identity. Characters in Samuel Beckett s Endgame , which is assumed to be antagonisticto story-telling, problematise the act of story-telling by attempting to create or retell stories, despite theirobvious failures and difficulties and objections they come across. Being trapped within the uneventful present,they tell stories, anecdotes, jokes, and fill in the void with dialogues. This paper examines story-telling in theplay within the context of time, power, and identity.

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