"I;IGIRJNDAN I;IKMI~ ~iMDi"DE "GELECEK GODOT"YU BEKLEMEK: SAMUEL BECKETT'iN GODOT'YU BEKLERKEN ADLI OYUNUNA DERRIDACI BiR OKUMA / WAITING FOR "GO DOT TO COME'"'IN THE PRESENT OUT OF JOINT": A DERRIDEAN READING OF WAITING FOR GODOT BY SAMUEL BECKETT

Yıl 2011, Sayı: 22, - , 27.01.2013

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Franszz postmodernizmi/postyapzsalczilgznda onde gelen bir dizi

fikir ve pratiifi yazzlarzyla onceleyen Samuel Beckett, adeta bir

postmodern-postyapzsalcz teorisyen i$levi gosterir. Yazar postyapzsalcz,

yaptbozumcu ve ozellikle Derridacz dii~iince ve pratikle pek 9ok ortak

noktaya sahiptir. Eserleri bizzat Derrida tarafindan yapzbozumcu ya da

"ozyapzbozumcu" olarak degerlendirilen Beckett, Batzil dii~iince ve

edebiyatzn egemen metaforlarzna saldznr ve oznenin birligini sorgular.

Sava~ sonrasz Avrupa dii~iincesinde ozellikle onde gelen Franszz

entelektiieller, yeni bir 9agzn e~iifinde bulunduklarzna inanzrlar ve 9e~itli

Mesihselci vizyonlar geli~tirirler. Derridacz yapzbozum, heniiz gelmemi~

bir geleceifin vaadinin yapzsznz, "belirli bir ozgiirle~tirici vaat

deneyimi "nin yapzszm geli~tirmek i9in, daima "heniiz gelecek alan" bir

ge/ecegin yapzsz o/arak mesihse/in gene/ yapzsznz One 91karzrken, bu Mesihselci vizyonun ilgin9 orneklerinden birini sunar. Bu 9alz0mada

Beckett 'in teolojik, politik ve felsefi imalan 90k9a tartz0zlzp yorumlanan,

yapzbozumculugu onceleyen ve ana bir alt-metin olu0turan Godot 'yu

Beklerken adlz oyunu, karakterlerini bir 0ekilde 'ger9ek veya ins an'

olarak tammlamaya egilim gosteren anlamlabsilrd tartzomalanyla orillil

modernist varolu09u perspektiflerin gelenekselle0mi0 96zilmleme

tarzlanmn aksine, Derrida 'mn 'biltilnilyle oteki ', 'erteleme ', 'bekleme ',

'vaat', 'tehdit', 'gelecek', gibi kavramlarla baglantzlz etik-politik

90Zilmlemelerinde onemli bir yer iogal eden Mesihselcilik tartzomasz

baglamznda okunmaya 9alz0zlacakizr.

Anahtar sozcukler: Derrida, Beckett, Godot, Mesih, butiinuyle

oteki, gelecek demokrasi

Samuel  Beckett  who  anticipated  a series  of  leading  ideas  and

practices in French pas/modernism and poststructuralism in his writing almost functioned as a 

postmodernist-poststructuralist theorist. The writer has many common points with pas/structuralist, 

deconstructionist and especially Derridean ideas and practices. Beckett, whose works are considered 

by Derrida himself as deconstructionist or self­ deconstructionist, attacked the dominant metaphors 

of Western thought and literature and questioned the unity of subject. Especially the leading 

French intellectuals in the post-war European thought believed they were on the threshold of a new 

era and developed various messianic visions. Derridean deconstruction offers one of the interesting 

examples of these visions while emphasizing a general structure of the messianic as a future

"yet to come" in order to develop the structure of afillure  that always has not yet come, a certan 

structure of experience of liberating promise.

In  this  study,  contrary  to  the  traditional  analyzing  modes  of

modernist existentialist perspectives with the debates on meaning/absurd showing a tendency to 

define its characters somehow 'real or human', Beckett's play, Waitingfor Godot, theological, 

political and philosophical implications of which are much debated, that preceded deconstructionism 

forming its sub-text, is tried to be read in the context of messianism which occupies an important 

place in Derrida 's et/Jicopolitical analyses associated with such concepts as 'wholly other', 

'postpone', 'waiting', 'promise', 'threat', 'the to come.'

Key   words:  Derrida,   Beckett,   Godot,  Messiah,  wholly  other, democracy to come.

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