• PIYALI DAS

Jean Francois Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard have provided the philosophical framework for postmodernism. The former with his stress on the need to be incredulous towards grand narrative and the latter with the loss of the real to virtual reality created largely by the new information and communication technologies. Lyotard's book The Postmodern Condition has proved to be the major text for debates on postmodernism. Baudrillard’s book Simulations theorized the ‘loss of the real’. At present two literary critics can be considered important chroniclers of postmodernism. The first is Ihab Hassan. His book Paracriticisms equates postmodernism with anti-elitism and anti-authoritarianism. He visualizes art as becoming communal, participatory, optional and irony, becoming self-consuming play. The writer he had in mind most of the time was Samuel Beckett. The second critic is Linda Hutcheon, the author of A Poetics of Postmodernism, who sees postmodernist fiction as subversive and complicit at the same time. Postmodernism is the term used to suggest a reaction or response to modernism in the late twentieth century. Postmodernism believes in the premise, “irrational is real, real is irrational”. It celebrates fragmentation instead of lamenting over it. Postmodernism is both a reaction against modernist values and a natural progression from them: the quest for meaning is abundant, and the experimentation with new nodes of expression is replaced by a reconfiguring of older modes. This breakdown of the traditional systems of Western thought is typically associated with postmodernism. From the above points and parameters related to postmodernism, we will discuss the postmodern condition in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.

"Postmodern Aspects in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 8, page no.d613-d615, August-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2208371.pdf

"Postmodern Aspects in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 8, page no. ppd613-d615, August-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2208371.pdf