“I’ll tell”: Beckett, Geulincx and the Will to Fail

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In this paper, we look for traces of the effect Arnold Geulincx’s Ethics had on Samuel Beckett’s Fizzles. We consider this work to be representative of Beckett’s later poetics, given the multiple references he makes to his previous works in it, which signals an intent to create a text that works as...

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Autor principal:	Duchovny, Malena
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Lenguaje:	Español
Publicado:	Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Universidad de Buenos Aires 2020
Materias:	Beckett Geulincx Fizzles failure will fracaso voluntad
Acceso en línea:	https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/Beckettiana/article/view/9126 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=becke&d=9126_oai
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spelling	I28-R145-9126_oai2025-11-17 Duchovny, Malena 2020-11-30 In this paper, we look for traces of the effect Arnold Geulincx’s Ethics had on Samuel Beckett’s Fizzles. We consider this work to be representative of Beckett’s later poetics, given the multiple references he makes to his previous works in it, which signals an intent to create a text that works as a summation of his oeuvre. With this objective in mind, we trace the references to Geulincx in Beckett’s text after his reading of the Ethics and we show how Geulincx’s philosophy, especially the idea that human will is subjected to a divine will just like the people walking eastward on a ship heading West. Beckett’s replaces God with randomness, but he accepts that there is no way to express the will of the ‘I’. Here, his poetics mutate: the negative effort of his early texts becomes a will to create, even though it will inevitably end in failure. This is announced in “Three Dialogues”, where Beckett makes his famous claim about the impossibility of expressing oneself. Finally, we proceed to an analysis of the Fizzles themselves, where we encounter an insistence on willful failure, both in the form and content of the texts that compose it. En el presente trabajo buscamos rastrear la influencia que tuvo la Ética del filósofo Arnold Geulincx en los Fizzles de Samuel Beckett, a los cuales consideramos representativos de la poética beckettiana tardía ya que las constantes referencias a textos anteriores del autor irlandés dan la idea de una condensación de su obra. Para esto, analizamos las primeras referencias que Beckett hace a Geulincx luego de haber leído su Ética y mostramos el cambio que se da en la poética beckettiana, especialmente en relación con la idea de la voluntad humana subsumida a la voluntad divina, como quienes caminan hacia el este a bordo de un barco que se dirige al oeste. Beckett reemplaza a la voluntad de Dios por el azar, pero acepta que no hay manera de expresar la voluntad de la conciencia. Así, su poética se modifica: el esfuerzo negativo se transforma en una voluntad de crear aunque el fracaso sea inevitable. Esto lo vemos especialmente retratado en “Three Dialogues”, donde Beckett realiza su famosa aseveración acerca de la imposibilidad de expresarse. Finalmente, procedemos a un análisis de los Fizzles en sí y reparamos en la insistencia en el fracaso voluntario en la forma y el contenido de estas prosas. application/pdf text/html https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/Beckettiana/article/view/9126 10.34096/beckettiana.n17.9126 spa Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Universidad de Buenos Aires https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/Beckettiana/article/view/9126/7911 https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/Beckettiana/article/view/9126/7942 Beckettiana; Núm. 17 (2020); 39-49 2683-9679 0327-7550 Beckett Geulincx Fizzles failure will Beckett Geulincx Fizzles fracaso voluntad “I’ll tell”: Beckett, Geulincx and the Will to Fail “I’ll tell”: Beckett, Geulincx y la voluntad de fracasar info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=becke&d=9126_oai
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“I’ll tell”: Beckett, Geulincx and the Will to Fail

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