En attendant Godot (English)

Japanese: 《En attendant Godot》(英語表記)EnattendantGodot
En attendant Godot (English)

…In this play, which begins with a conversation between an English couple in an English middle-class family, language breaks down from its everyday meaning and undergoes nuclear fission, even destroying the identity of the person speaking it. While Ionesco's play was initially poorly received by audiences, Irish-born S. Beckett's En attendant Godot (1953) has, in contrast, been performed more than 300 times in Paris alone and in countries around the world, becoming one of the most influential works in modern theater. The two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon, who are simply waiting for a character named Godot in an empty world with only one dead tree, represent the extremes of the human condition, and humans who are thrown into this infinite emptiness must simply keep talking to escape from their hellish loneliness. …

*Some of the terminology used in "En attendant Godot" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…イギリス風の中流家庭でのイギリス風の夫婦の会話に始まるこの劇では,言語は日常性の意味を離れて核分裂し,それを語る人間のアイデンティティさえも崩壊させてしまう。このようなイヨネスコの劇が,最初ほとんど観客に受け入れられなかったのに対し,アイルランド生れのS.ベケットの《ゴドーを待ちながらEn attendant Godot》(1953)は対照的にパリだけでも300回以上の上演を重ね,世界各国でも上演されるなど,現代演劇でもっとも強い影響力をもつ作品となった。枯木が一本だけしかないという空虚な世界に,ゴドーという人物をただ待っている2人の主人公ウラディミールとエストラゴンの姿は,人間の状況の極限を表したもので,この無限の空虚の中に投げ出された人間は,地獄のような孤独から逃れるためにただひたすらしゃべり続けなければならない。…

※「《En attendant Godot》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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