Interpretation on the Postmodernist Features of the Theatre of the Absurd's Narrative Art——A Case Study of Krapp's Last Tape

Theatre of the Absurd refers to those dramatists or dramas expressing the absurd state of existence by means of absurd techniques instead of traditional and rational means. Krapp's Last Tape is a classical masterpiece of the Theatre of the Absurd. The Irish dramatist Beckett employed anti-traditional techniques to show a true absurd world. This Avant-garde piece is of unique postmodernist features embodied in the narrative structure, narrative discourse as well as temporal and spatial narrative strategies. The narrative art of Krapp's Last Tape serves to expose the truth of existence being absurd.