JOCUL DE-A DUMNEZEU
PLAYING GOD

Summary/Abstract: The title of this article reflects the paradoxes of Samuel Beckett’s theatre of the absurd: the tragic reality of life without any horizons or expectations affected by despair and defined by the crisis of communication. The degradation and the fall of humanity are obsessive themes in Beckett's bilingual works. In his texts, one can encounter almost all the features of Irish art, from depression, anxiety, eccentric taste, to the pressure of moral dogmas, language probing, paradoxes, and wordplay. Also the traits of French existentialism and other philosophical ideas related to the end of the Second World War are to be found in his works. Therefore, Beckett’s austere and minimalist universe is interpreted in this essay as an expression of a deep and complex form of pessimism with regard to the human condition.

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