On Fragments: A Piece of Art and the “I” – or Not

• Authors: Stanley E. Gontarski

Title variants

PL

O fragmentach. Dzieło sztuki i „ja” – albo nie

IT

A proposito di frammenti. Un’opera d’arte e “me” – oppure no

Abstracts

PL

W eseju badane są implikacje filozoficzne obecne w późnym, najbardziej enigmatycznym i metonimicznym dziele teatralnym Samuela Becketta Nie ja. Implikacje te są bezsprzeczne, mimo że autor Czekając na Godota często zaprzeczał swym (sugerowanym przez krytyków) zainteresowaniom filozofią, której – jak twierdził – ani nie czytał, ani nie rozumiał. Wspomniana sztuka jest jednak dziełem głęboko ontologicznym, a metonimia w jego obrazie scenicznym przywołuje klasyczną filozoficzną zagadkę, dotyczącą relacji części (tu: utworu lub jego fragmentu) do całości. Jest to kwestia, która Becketta intrygowała przez większą część jego twórczego życia.

EN

This essay explores the philosophical implications inherent in Samuel Beckett’s most enigmatic and metonymic late theater work, Not I, even as he frequently abjured any interest in philosophy, which he claimed neither to read nor to understand. The play is profoundly ontological, however, and its metonymic stage image engages the classical philosophical conundrum of the relationship of the part, a piece or fragment, say, to the whole, an issue with which Beckett has at least been intrigued for most of his creative life.

Keywords

IT

frammenti; Modernismo; Romanticismo; ontologia; metonimia; Samuel Beckett; James Joyce; Immanuel Kant; Julia Kristeva; Slavoj Žižek

EN

fragments; Modernism; Romanticism; ontology; metonymy; Samuel Beckett; James Joyce; Immanuel Kant; Julia Kristeva; Slavoj Žižek

PL

fragmenty; modernizm; romantyzm; ontologia; metonimia; Samuel Beckett; James Joyce; Immanuel Kant; Julia Kristeva; Slavoj Žižek

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: Fabrica Litterarum Polono-Italica
• Year: 2024
• Issue: 2(8)
• Pages: 1-16

Dates

published

2024

Contributors

author

Stanley E. Gontarski

• Florida State University

• https://orcid.org/0000000228994209

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Identifiers

DOI

10.31261/FLPI.2024.08.10

Biblioteka Nauki

59346475