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Article: Is the absurd a male-dominated terrain? Pessoa and Beckett as case studies.(Fernando Pessoa, Samuel Beckett)(Critical essay)
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- Portuguese Studies
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- March 22, 2008
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Abstract. The present article examines the notion of the absurd as it transpires in the form of Modernist literature; more specifically, in the works of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) and Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). On the basis of how these authors responded to a sense of existential disquiet, experienced as the absurd, an examination of the latter as a particular terrain proposes that the bewildered self sought a refuge in literature from a sensation of nothingness. The idea of literature as a territory of signification is, moreover, analogous to that of an inner, psychological terrain where the creation of an identity originates and where the question of a male-female ...
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