Abstrakt
The purpose of this paper is to look into the relation between the two terms that serve as the title for the colloquium - CHAOS and FORM. In an interview with Tom Driver, which was quoted on the invitation, Beckett clearly distinguishes between the two: "The form and the chaos remain separate...
That is why the form itself becomes a preoccupation, because it exists as a problem separate from the material it accommodates. To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now." Despite Beckett's wish to keep the form separate from the content - chaos or mess - it shapes, I will show that in reality such a distinction cannot be easily made, and that at least some forms generate a specific kind of mess, rather than contain it.