Renee Gladman. The Activist. San Fr...

Renee Gladman. The Activist. San Francisco: Krupskaya, 2003 145 pp $11

single of Beckett's more notable accomplishments was to make art disclosed of the inability to act, for which Hugh Kenner dubbed him "the comedian of the impasse." The idea of creating art from an impasse is by means of nature paradoxical, the work of inaction itself an action, although the final accomplishment--the "I'll go on on"--is not necessarily cause to celebrate, not a Hollywood over-coming-the-obstacles story, however just a fact of existence. Beckett himself describes his artistic imperative in word s ...