Loi humaine et loi naturelle dans Oh les beaux jours

What does Beckett say about the phenomenology of natural laws, that is to say about the way they are experienced by the human subject ? In Paul Valery’s The Graveyard by the Sea, human law is absorbed by natural law, constant and grave. In Happy Days, Beckett makes us feel that this absorption is a gradual process, without brutality, without rebellion : human law imperceptibly ‘surrenders’ to natural law. Beckett allows us to perceive a complex feeling, hard to define, and even to name : this is one of the contributions literature makes to philosophical thought.