Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi’s parable of the incarnation and Salvific redemption : “The Humanifed Word,” “the Dry Bleeded Lamb” and “the Created Trinity”

Abstract

In 1953, Samuel Beckett published the third novel L’Innomable from what was to be the famous “Trilogy” started with Molloy and followed by Malone meurt. L’Innomable was later translated into English by the author himself. In the post-war period, Becket published also the famous play Waiting for Godot “which had worldwide success in the 1950s.” Beckett was convinced that the “contemporary malaise” is that which “has been the malaise of all time,” namely that “people are not in touch with their spirit” and therefore find themselves out of life itself desperately searching for meaning (through language). He expresses this in his “art of impoverishment” as a sort of apophatic kenosis of the “divine Word who emptied himself, into human likeness to the point of death, even death on a cross as St. Paul says.” [excerpt]