Deleuze and the exhaustion of language: a reading of Samuel Beckett

Our aim is to analyze the idea of language exhaustion in Gilles Deleuze and to evaluate the way the philosopher approaches literature and takes up the work of Samuel Beckett to reflect on the potentialities of literature. This article is divided into three parts: it probes the role played by literat...

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Author: Tolentino Gonçalves Felipe, Cláudia
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2023
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU)
Repository:ArtCultura (Online)
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.seer.ufu.br:article/73169
Online Access:https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/artcultura/article/view/73169
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:esgotamento
Samuel Beckett
Gilles Deleuze
exhaustion
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Summary:Our aim is to analyze the idea of language exhaustion in Gilles Deleuze and to evaluate the way the philosopher approaches literature and takes up the work of Samuel Beckett to reflect on the potentialities of literature. This article is divided into three parts: it probes the role played by literature in Deleuze's thought; it takes up Beckett's work to understand its content; it analyzes the text The Exhausted, which Deleuze wrote in 1992 as an afterword to Beckett's television plays broadcast by the BBC in London between 1975 and 1982.