In the movie we watched today I noticed the similarities of the Proffesor to Jacques Derrida. According to Wiki, Derrida believes, "The first (relating to deferral) is the notion that words and signs can never fully summon forth what they mean, but can only be defined through appeal to additional words, from which they differ. Thus, meaning is forever "deferred" or postponed through an endless chain of signifiers. The second (relating to difference, sometimes referred to as espacement or "spacing") concerns the force which differentiates elements from one another and, in so doing, engenders binary oppositions and hierarchies which underpin meaning itself."
Harold Crick can only know what his character is by knowing what it is not. He realized at first that his life was not a comedy because of how depressing he was, he then realized he was definately not in a romance because the woman in the movie, Pascal, started out hating him. After finding out what character Harold was not, they realized he was in a tragedy. This can be true in Kenosis where the author takes out everything and leaves the reader with nothing left. The author, such as Samuel Becket, gives you all of what the novel isn't. This is why Molone Dies and Molloy are such frustrating novels. As a reader you want to be left with a good fealing. An author can either give you the answer right away, or hint at what it is until the end, or can give you the opposite until the reader finally (or never) understands. Samuel Becket takes everything out of the novel, similiar to how Derrida's theory works.
Harold Crick can only know what his character is by knowing what it is not. He realized at first that his life was not a comedy because of how depressing he was, he then realized he was definately not in a romance because the woman in the movie, Pascal, started out hating him. After finding out what character Harold was not, they realized he was in a tragedy. This can be true in Kenosis where the author takes out everything and leaves the reader with nothing left. The author, such as Samuel Becket, gives you all of what the novel isn't. This is why Molone Dies and Molloy are such frustrating novels. As a reader you want to be left with a good fealing. An author can either give you the answer right away, or hint at what it is until the end, or can give you the opposite until the reader finally (or never) understands. Samuel Becket takes everything out of the novel, similiar to how Derrida's theory works.
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