Allégorie et Via Negativa dans l'oeuvre de Samuel Beckett

This article purposes to establish the possibility of a reading linking Beckett's texts to the philosophical system by counterpoising two reading methods at the heart of Martin Buning's thought : the use of allegory and the via negativa. The works of Paul de Man and Martin Buning make an allegorical interpretation of Beckett possible, so long as allegory is understood, in a modern sense, as accepting of fragmentation, negation, and no longer relying on a totalising system of representation of the world.