Samuel Beckett et Fyodor Dostoievski Un passage ⟪souterrain⟫ de L'Innommable å En attendant Godot

The connections between Beckett and Dostoevsky, more numerous than previously imagined, are manifest in a series of shared motifs, which invite us to reinterpret the turning-point leading from L'Innommable to En attendant Godot. Estragon alludes to the work Notes from Underground, whose eponymous motif comes from Chernychevsky's novel What is to be done? Representing negative qualities, it is a place of choice for Dostoevksy's character. It is also the domain where the voice of L'Innommable resounds, and which Estragon retrospectively points to from the stability of the stage, and which will come to the fore once again in Beckett's later theatre.