ABSTRACT
When talking with Charles Juliet, Samuel Beckett agreed that artistic enterprise was impossible without rigorous ethical standards. But, he complained,
moral values are not accessible and not open to definition. To define them, you would have to make value judgements, and you can’t do that. That’s why I have never agreed with the idea of the theatre of the absurd. Because that implies making value judgements. You can’t even talk about truth. That is part of the general distress.
