One connection that I noticed after reading the Sontag essay was when she mentioned Samuel Beckett. Last year, I read Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. Analyzing literature is similar to interpreting art. Either you can see the literal aspect of the piece or you can try to find a deeper meaning of the work. I can agree with Sontag’s point about a writer who is “uneasy before the naked power of his art that he will install within the work itself- albeit with a little shyness, a touch of the good taste of irony…”. I defiantly think that Beckett avoided being blunt about religion in the play because religion shown in a bad light is very controversial.
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