The Badiou / Beckett device and the Aristophan episode of "croaking of frogs"
Keywords:
croaking, nomination, lack of communication, event, noise
Abstract
The present article hypothesizes about the comparative possibilities between the Aristophanic episode known as “the croaking of frogs”, a hypotext in Greek comedic tradition, and its revisitation as a “noise-event” both in Watt by Samuel Beckett (1906- 1989) and Citrouilles by Alain Badiou. The frog episode (Βάτραχοι) of Aristophanes (444-385 BC) is rewritten by both contemporary authors around the notions of nomination and lack of communication. Badiou’s interest, both as a philosopher and as a playwright, is to redefine the figures of inarticulacy and the conflicts between being and language based on Beckett’s dramatic postulates: the way in which the Irish author rewrites in Watt the episode of the croaking of frogs and the way in which the author of Being and Event, a great reader and scholar of Beckett, articulates, in his own production, the possible relations between Aristophanes and Beckett as central dramatic authors in his own experience and practice.Downloads
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Published
2019-04-01
How to Cite
Romero, W. (2019). The Badiou / Beckett device and the Aristophan episode of "croaking of frogs". Beckettiana, (16), 17-28. https://doi.org/10.34096/beckettiana.n16.7979
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