Adorno heard Endgame’s dialogues as governed by musical listening, not logic

Evidence

The course of the dialogues … sounds as if the law of their progression was not the logic of statement and response, not even the psychological linkage of statement and response, but rather a form of listening to the end similar to that of music, a form of listening which has emancipated itself from prescribed types of discourse. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2241

Categorization

• XREF: Directly instantiates Adorno’s general claim that Beckett’s drama works like serial music; connects to how Berg’s twelve-tone writing left room for tonal elements. — connects to: Beckett’s Endgame structures drama through parodic categories and musical form. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2240