베케트의 『행복한 나날들』

• 영문명: Serial Expression of 'Strangeness' in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days
• 발행기관: 한국비평이론학회
• 저자명: 윤화영(Hwa-young Yoon)
• 간행물 정보: 『비평과 이론』제18권 2호, 109~139쪽, 전체 30쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.12.31

영문 초록

This paper analyzes Samuel Beckett's Happy Days in an attempt to find the serial features in its aesthetic composition which are able to be associated with the musical serialism practiced by various European composers from the 1920s onward. Both of them share in common the essentially mathematical and 'machinic' structural principles according to which a recurring series of ordered elements (a set, a row) are used with equal chance, so the lack of a musical or dramatic subject and a privileged moment gives a piece a radically different sort of unity from that of their artistic precedents. Since the notes or expressive dramatic elements belonging to a set are related only to one another, both of musical serialism and Beckett's theatrical serial technique may also be considered in terms of a philosophy of life which, in the words of Stockhausen, is "a spiritual and democratic attitude toward the world," that might be associated with the Deleuzean philosophy of immanence. Beckett's serialism is able to be read as an artistic choice for the transformation of the 'strangeness' that he sensed in the post war European world around him into an artistic form. It was a strange world in which the capability of "affect and being affected" had been drastically diminished by the prevalent commercialism and the habitual false conscious. In Happy Days that sense of strangeness is conveyed through a constant rhythm of interruption between the serial elements of various sets he predetermined. The rhythm of interruption is nothing less than the relations of movement and rest that expresses "the fluid structures that are transformed and deformed at variable speeds" as Deleuze puts it. It is a geometrical and universal structure or rhythm of life formed and deformed by all possible bodies of the world enveloping all the possible relations of movement and rest.

목차

Ⅰ. 음렬주의와 베케트

Ⅱ. 현대의 특징적 정동(affect)으로서의 '이상스러움'과 그 계열적 표현

Ⅲ. 결론

인용문헌

Abstract

키워드

『행복한 나날들』 정동 계열적 표현 베케트 들뢰즈 잠재적인 것 Happy Days affect serialism Beckett Deleuze the virtual