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Lapis Lazuli -An International Literary Journal (LLILJ)
Vol.3/ NO.2/Autumn 2013
Theorizing the Absurd: Waiting for Godot Sixty Years After
Vijay Kumar Rai
Abstract
The term Absurd is essentially impregnated with various human conditions and situations arousing absurdity and is necessarily present in the post world war generation. Life has become bitter sweet or „life in death and death in life‟ to the coming generation. This human predicament sprouted its spears during 1920s, developed during 1940s and perpetuated in the later world.
This very notion was enchanted, transported and sometimes devastated by the intellectuals of this world such as T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Existentialists, Expressionists, Surrealists, and
Absurdists of the 20th century. And Waiting for Godot is central sun round whom all the absurdist notions move. It transcendents time and has the cosmic significance even after 60 years of its publication. It insinuates modernism and perpetuates postmodernism that is nothing but “too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our lives before it.”
Really in the midsty of then terminological mayhem, Absurd is best identified with Waiting for
Godot with its sense of nothingness in life.
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Lapis Lazuli -An International Literary Journal (LLILJ)
Key words: Absurd, Existentialism, Surrealism, and Post modernism.
The term Absurd is essentially impregnated with various human conditions and situations arousing absurdity and is necessarily present in the post world war generation. Life has become bitter sweet or „life in death and death in life‟ to the coming generation. This human predicament sprouted its spears during 1920s, developed during 1940s and perpetuated in the later world. This very notion was
Vol.3/ NO.2/Autumn 2013
Theorizing the Absurd: Waiting for Godot Sixty Years After
Vijay Kumar Rai
Abstract
The term Absurd is essentially impregnated with various human conditions and situations arousing absurdity and is necessarily present in the post world war generation. Life has become bitter sweet or „life in death and death in life‟ to the coming generation. This human predicament sprouted its spears during 1920s, developed during 1940s and perpetuated in the later world.
This very notion was enchanted, transported and sometimes devastated by the intellectuals of this world such as T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Existentialists, Expressionists, Surrealists, and
Absurdists of the 20th century. And Waiting for Godot is central sun round whom all the absurdist notions move. It transcendents time and has the cosmic significance even after 60 years of its publication. It insinuates modernism and perpetuates postmodernism that is nothing but “too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our lives before it.”
Really in the midsty of then terminological mayhem, Absurd is best identified with Waiting for
Godot with its sense of nothingness in life.
Lapis Lazuli -An International Literary Journal (LLILJ) ISSN 2249-4529, Vol.3/ NO.2/Autumn 2013
URL of the Issue: http://pintersociety.com/vol-3-no-2autumn-2013/
© www.pintersociety.com
28
Lapis Lazuli -An International Literary Journal (LLILJ)
Key words: Absurd, Existentialism, Surrealism, and Post modernism.
The term Absurd is essentially impregnated with various human conditions and situations arousing absurdity and is necessarily present in the post world war generation. Life has become bitter sweet or „life in death and death in life‟ to the coming generation. This human predicament sprouted its spears during 1920s, developed during 1940s and perpetuated in the later world. This very notion was
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