Territorio de post-catástrofe, otredad y retórica en la obra “Esperando a Godot”. Aportes para la comprensión de la dramaturgia de Samuel Beckett desde una Sociología de la postmodernidad

Abstract

Departing from the analysis of the socio-cultural world and its dimensions, together with the subject’s world, we analyze the variables territory and time, with particular reference to postmodernity.
The dramaturgical work of Samuel Beckett –with emphasis in his work “Waiting for Godot”- is considered in terms of its convergences with the historic and socio-cultural stage.

Beckett undervalues the interpersonal relations, showing a marginal world of defeated and perplexed people facing the confusion between reality and unreality, sense and non-sense. Considered as the “last modern”, mainly in terms of his aesthetic of the uncertainty, his works can be related to a theological skepticism near to the heideggerian dasein. We analyze the importance and diversity of territories, both in the real and symbolic senses: seas, mountains and deserts, focused in Simmel’s aesthetics, Bachelard’s poetics, and the understanding of the meaning of post-modernity present in authors like Sloterdijk, Deleuze and Guattari, among others. Life and death, memory and its fractures, endless wait, chaos, scenes of post-catastrophe: they are all components of the existential and desert realms where the Beckett characters debate.