A Marxist Analysis of Beckett's Resistive Strategies to Culture Industry in The Unnamable
Keywords:
The Unnamable , Culture Industry , Marxist Paradigm, CommodificationAbstract
Informed by the theoretical assumptions of the Marxist paradigm, this study critically responds to Samuel Beckett’s novel The Unnamable. This Marxist strain concerns the Frankfurt School, Theodor Adorno, and Max Horkheimer, and their discourse on the Culture Industry which implies that the Culture Industry manipulates its consumers and commodifies, and reifies art forms, and presents them to the reading public which consume them mindlessly. This paper contends that form of a literary work is the site of ideological contentions. The Unnamable, on account of its atonal and esoteric narrative, not aimed at providing aesthetic pleasure, resists the commodification of culture. Its questioning thrust and the diagnostic modes engage the reader intellectually.
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