In comparison to Sartre 's concepts of the function of literature, Samuel Beckett 's primary focus was on the failure of man to overcome "absurdity '' - or the repetition of life even though the end result will be the same no matter what and everything is essentially pointless - as James Knowlson says in Damned to Fame, Beckett 's work focuses, "on poverty, failure, exile and loss -- as he put it, on man as a ' non-knower ' and as a ' non-can - er '. '' Beckett 's own relationship with Sartre was complicated by a mistake made in the publication of one of his stories in Sartre 's journal Les Temps Modernes. Beckett said, though he liked Nausea, he generally found the writing style of Sartre and Heidegger to be "too philosophical '' and he considered himself "not a philosopher ''.
who belongs to the absurd school of drama
Samuel Beckett