![]() ![]() ![]() For instance, in the scarcely known essay Henry Heyden, homme paintre, the author underlines Siddharta Gautama’s declaration of the simultaneous existence and non-existence of the “I”. Applying Buddhism as a critical approach to Beckett’s works doesn’t mean neither assuming a Beckettian in-depth knowledge of the Buddhist issue, nor stating his precise intention to diffuse Buddhist doctrine in his own works, though there are several instances of Beckett’s explicit statement of the importance of Buddhist principles. Steven Rosen, in Samuel Beckett and the Pessimistic Tradition (1976), moves further, by analyzing Beckett’s works and stating that they reproduce a great variety of Buddhist conceptual elements. Richard Coes, in his Beckett (1964) infers it with authority, offering several relevant examples of a possible comparative reading. ""The first attempts to apply Buddhist and Zen systems of thought as critical methodologies in the examination of Beckett’s canon can be traced back to the first half of the Sixties.
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