Abstract
Roland Barthes in his review “The Adult «Godot»” in 1954 claims that the language itself of Becketts’ play Waiting for Godot at last makes the audience take it as comic and understandable, though at the premiere just 17 months before the same text has been condemned as highbrow. The article examines several Barthes’ works (The Third Meaning, S/Z, Camera Lucida), Becketts’ short movie The Film (1964) as well as Stéphane Mallarmé’s article The Impressionists and Edouard Manet (1876) in order to clear up the key question: how the modernity painting method of “cutting down” the picture on canvas could help to analyse those language phenomenon Barthes discovered.
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