Adorno linked Beckett’s greatness to the late style of earlier masters

Evidence

What Adorno saw as the explanation for Beckett’s greatness was, in his view, at the same time characteristic of previous climaxes of art, the late works of pre-modern artists. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2722

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno read late works as climaxes across art history; Adorno regarded Beckett and Celan as heirs of heroic modernism, not contemporaries of it. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2727