Divided reality. Beckett, Webern and Mondrian: three perspectives on the same idea

Abstract

he aim of this paper is to present the methodological tool wich allows to demonstrate the existence of a relationship of equality between the aesthetic thought of the writer Samuel Beckett, the composer Anton Webern and the painter Piet Mondrian, in a way such that it is possible to affirm that the same essence lives in different materials, that the same artistic idea is embodied in three different realities. Or, for saying it in another way, to prove that the music of Anton Webern is an acoustic representation of the Mondrian painting and literature of Beckett, and vice versa. The analysis of the aesthetic thought of each of the authors through various sources, reveals a parallelism that emerges in a manner so clear that it allows us to say that these authors do not walk along parallel roads but the same way.