Question: who belongs to the absurd school of drama
Answer: In comparison to Sartre 's concepts of the function of literature , Samuel Beckett 's primary focus was on the failure of man to overcome `` absurdity '' - or the repetition of life even though the end result will be the same no matter what and everything is essentially pointless - as James Knowlson says in Damned to Fame , Beckett 's work focuses , `` on poverty , failure , exile and loss -- as he put it , on man as a ' non-knower ' and as a ' non-can - er ' .