wie geht kunst
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[From a 2009 interview with Mladen Dolar]
WgK: Is there an artwork that had a lasting effect on you?
Dolar: The work of Samuel Beckett – if I have to single out
just one. It is both the importance it had for me and for the particular
historic moment of the end of the twentieth century. I think he is the one who
went the furthest in a certain way. There are various reasons for this, and one
of them has to do with an enormous will to reduction. What Beckett did was to
create an infinitely shrinkable world. There is never little enough. You can
always take away more.
Take the The Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The
Unnamable. In the Beginning there is some sort of plot and some sort of
characters. Then in the second novel you have just Malone, who is dying alone
in his room and who is inventing stories as he is waiting for death. The space
has shrunk, there is no more travel. And then you have the third novel, where
you don’t even have this. You don’t even have a space, you don’t even have a
character, you just have a voice. A voice which just rambles on and continues,
and it doesn’t matter what it says in the end. It’s just the sheer thrust of
perseverance, of persistence, which carries the whole thing. So just persist.
You have to go on. And you know how this ends, it ends in the most beautiful
way: “I must go on, I can’t go on, I will go on“.
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