Adorno saw Beckett and Helms as surpassing Kafka and Joyce.

Evidence

In Adorno’s opinion, Beckett’s Endgame was to Kafka’s novels, and Helms’s FA: M’AHNIESGWOW was to Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, what serial music was to Schoenberg, free atonality and twelve-tone technique. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2238

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels Adorno’s Philosophy of Modern Music trajectory: Schoenberg to serialism, applied to literature. — connects to: Adorno ranked Beckett and Helms as serial successors to Kafka and Joyce — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2238; Beckett and Helms absolutized predecessors’ principles into necessity free of the individual; Adorno judged Helms’s philology-based associative text more avant-garde than Beckett. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2245 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno judged Helms’s philology-based associative text more avant-garde than Beckett. #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2245
• Adorno regarded Beckett and Celan as heirs of heroic modernism, not contemporaries of it. #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2727