@article {Gottfried:1 March 2002:0927-3131:114,
	author = "Gottfried Buttner",
	title = "SCHOPENHAUERS RECOMMENDATIONS TO BECKETT",
	journal = "Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui",
	volume = "11",
	year = "1 March 2002",
	abstract = "As a young man, Beckett read Schopenhauer again and again, and not only because of his beautiful style, despite his claims to the contrary. Schopenhauer's pessimism was very close to Beckett's own, and he was to heed the three ways of enduring the misery of existence that Schopenhauer recommended: art, or aesthetic contemplation, compassion, and resignation. This essay explores the ways in which Schopenhauer's thought made it possible for Beckett to create his literary work and to come to grips with his own life.",
	pages = "114-122(9)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rodopi/sbta/2002/00000011/00000001/art00015"
}