مجلة أبحاث
Volume 9, Numéro 2, Pages 249-259
2024-12-31
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe’s Influence On Samuel Beckett’s Selected Works
Authors : Chabane Chaouch Sarah .
Abstract
This paper examines Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther influence on Samuel Beckett's Murphy and “The Winter Journey Over the Hartz Mountain” on “The Vulture.” The paper will rely on David Lodge’s The Art of Fiction, Harold Bloom’s Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry and Edward Said’s Beginnings: Intention and Method as a theoretical framework. Critics such as Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon argue that Goethe's writings had a great impact on Beckett’s fiction and poetry during the 1930s. This paper argues that there is textual evidence demonstrating Goethe’s influence on Beckett’s novel, especially the use of specific terms which are love, heart, despair, nothing to be done, fate and death. It also concentrates on the image of the vulture explored in both poems. It also focuses on how Beckett overcomes the influence of his precursor to show his originality.
Keywords
influence ; textual evidence ; themes ; Goethe ; Beckett
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