ET SI GODOT ÉTAIT UNE FEMME ? HÉRITAGE ET SUBVERSION DANS LA SECONDE CHUTE DE SYLVIANE DUPUIS
WHAT IF GODOT WERE A WOMAN? HERITAGE AND SUBVERSION IN SYLVIANE DUPUIS’S LA SECONDE CHUTE

Summary/Abstract: What if Godot Were a Woman? Heritage and Subversion in Sylviane Dupuis’s La Seconde Chute. While references to Mallarmé or Adorno are unsurprising for readers of the contemporary Swiss poet and playwright Sylviane Dupuis – who, before being a playwright, is primarily a poet writing with acute awareness of “hard times for poets” – the claim to a possibly Cioranian heritage is less evident to even a moderately familiar reader of the Swiss playwright’s work. In the present study, we aim to explore the significance of such a claim within the context of Sylviane Dupuis’s writing and her choice to revisit canonical texts through a feminist lens, by focusing in particular on a reading of Dupuis’s first play, La Seconde Chute, ou Godot, Acte III.

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