by Samuel Beckett · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782707302885
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«Le dépeupleur» is a prose narrative by Irish writer Samuel Beckett, published by Éditions de Minuit in paperback (55 pages, in French).
The text presents a closed microcosm in the shape of a cylinder, populated by captive beings who coexist under a strict hierarchy of castes and rigorous laws. Beckett presents it as a musical theme with open variations: the arrangement of space and its inhabitants admits multiple readings, from social order to philosophical inquiry.
The work was first published in French on 1 December 1970.
For readers of Beckett's experimental fiction, interested in symbolic microcosms and the intersection of literature, theatre and philosophy.
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense. Beckett is widely regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century, credited with transforming modern theatre. As a major figure of Irish literature, he is best known for his tragicomedy play Waiting for Godot (1953). For his foundational contribution to both literature and theatre, Beckett received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation."
