At Stephen Mitchelmore's blog, This Space, there are two new posts of interest.
He quotes Beckett's concerns voiced in an interview 26 years ago about the label 'absurd' applied to his writing:
Cautiously, I explain that I believe an artist's work is inconceivable without a strict ethical sense.
A long silence.
"What you say is true. But moral values are inaccessible. And they cannot be defined. In order to define them, you would have to pass judgement, which is impossible. That's why I could never agree with the notion of the theatre of the absurd. It involves a value judgment. You cannot even speak about truth. That's what's so distressful. Paradoxically, it is through form that the artist may find some kind of a way out. By giving form to formlesssness. It is only in that way, perhaps, that some underlying affirmation may be found."
And secondly, draws our attention to the online publication of a translation of an early story by Thomas Bernhard.

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