<P> 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 '' . </P>
<P> 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 '' . </P>
who belongs to the absurd school of drama
who belongs to the absurd school of drama
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett