ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the previous chapters of this book. The parallels in the two writers' methodology draw attention to defining aspects of their poetics: whilst they acknowledge the complexity or incomprehensible machinery of causes underlying events, both Carlo Emilio Gadda and Samuel Beckett abstain from rationalizing or ordering the chaos of the external/internal world in their writings. Rather, they search for forms of expression that adequately capture and reflect its very complexity. What also emerges from a comparative reading of this sort is a significant difference in the two authors' attitudes towards literature. If Gadda remains faithful to his plurilingual expressionism throughout his career, Beckett's tendency towards ablative, subtractive poetics ultimately prevails over the heterogeneous style and discourse dominating his earlier works. Both authors' status as central figures is at the juncture of European modernism and postmodernism.
