Errata pensante: temporalidade e subjetivação em A última gravação

Abstract

In the following study, the monologue Krapp's Last Tape, by Samuel Beckett, will be analyzed from the novelization of its forms, based on the premise of the crisis of the drama modern, highlighted by Peter Szondi. Adopting a broader discussion on contagion of genres, with a panoramic approach, we intend to construct a problem of background that, finally, is debated closer to the object. In this way, the first chapter this monograph focuses on the issue that involves the configuration of temporality romance in drama, as well as in the presentation of epic elements that act directly in the forms in Samuel Beckett's monologue, denoting the effect of a dramaturgy arising at the time of the dominant romanesque period. To this end, Samuel Beckett's theories regarding the novel, from his book Proust, will be used as a reading key for his own work, taking as a counterpoint its object, the recently finished In Search of Lost Time. Based on these findings, the second chapter takes the drama Krapp's Last Tape in comparison with Gustave Flaubert's famous novel, Sentimental Education. Thus, the monologue comes to be seen as a strictly speaking novelistic manifestation, whose forms reveal the incorporation of the epic past as scenic inadequacy, the result of assimilation of the novelistic incompleteness. More than a continuation, therefore, the two chapters mark an adjustment of lenses - from an initial pan to the close-up sequential.