Beckett pursued the same artistic absolutism as serial composers, beyond individual expression.
Evidence
Just as the serial composers had absolutized the serial principle, so Beckett and Helms had absolutized their predecessors’ principle and were attempting to achieve a degree of necessity that was freed from the individual and that could encompass every aspect of the work. … Beckett did go onwith plays and texts in which, although the discursive meaning of the words is never entirely destroyed, the connection between ever more barren groups of words was achieved more and more by using phonetic arrangement, leitmotifs, repetitions, analogies and echoes, and, in the plays, through gestures and pantomime. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 553
Categorization
- XREF: Parallels Adorno’s account of Schoenberg’s twelve-tone technique as domination of nature within music, noted elsewhere in this history. — connects to: Beckett’s subjective interior monologue becomes universal rather than individualist — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2256; Beckett’s fragmented interior monologue speaks with archetypal, not private, force. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 558; Adorno’s grouping of Beckett and Helms with serial composers rests on an imprecise claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 556 (+1 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Beckett’s subjective interior monologue becomes universal rather than individualist — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2256; Beckett’s fragmented interior monologue speaks with archetypal, not private, force. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 558; Adorno’s grouping of Beckett and Helms with serial composers rests on an imprecise claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 556 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Adorno’s grouping of Beckett and Helms with serial composers rests on an imprecise claim
#complicates(0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 556