A espera manca e a biblioteca aberta: Samuel Beckett e Carpeaux

Abstract

When the first edition of his História da literatura ocidental (1959) was about to be published, Carpeaux reviewed the original text, written in the mid-1940s, in order to consider the presence of Samuel Beckett, a central author of the twentieth century whose most famous work, Waiting for Godot, premiered in 1953. Years later, in 1976, the critic turned his attention to the Irish playwright one more time, publishing an analysis of Godot in the Manchete magazine. How much this meeting, in two different moments, between the critic/historian and the novelist/playwright can reveal aspects of their authorial projects and the diverse but intertwined contexts that mobilize them?