Światy wyludnione Nadzieja i oczekiwanie w Wyludniaczu Samuela Becketta

Abstract

The article offers an attempt at a Deleuzian re-reading of The Lost Ones by Samuel Beckett. Interpreting the story through the lens of the trope of “exhaustion,” the author offers a reading of The Lost Ones in terms of an unthinkable world. Such a perspective directs one’s attention to the figure of the narrator of the “wondering bodies” myth, who constantly invalidates the nihilism of the presented reality. In light of such a reading, The Lost Ones becomes a story founded on the principle of absolute unresolvability, perpetually referring the reader to hope and dooming him or her to constant waiting for an outside intervention which could bring the end to the tragic suspension of the people inhabiting the presented world.