Beckett has announced the wish that art would renounce all further projects for disturbing matters on “the plane of the feasible”, that art would retire, “weary of puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going further along a dreary road.” The alternative is an art consisting of “the expression that there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express.” From where does this obligation derive? The very aesthetics of the death wish seems to make of that wish something incorrigibly lively.
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Susan Sontag, The Aesthetics of Silence, 1969, p 7.
O NOVO NO ARQUIVO 