Commentaire Beckett « Dante And The Lobster » “More Pricks Than Kicks” is a collection of short stories, which was published by Samuel Beckett in 1934. We are going to study an excerpt of one of these short stories called “Dante And The Lobster”. More precisely this excerpt seems to be the end of that novella. Therefore we can attach importance to this part of the short story because the outcome of a story generally allows the reader to discover the aim of the author and it highlights the sense of the text. After a short journey thru the streets, the main character, Belacqua, met up with his aunt at her house. He had brought a lobster in a parcel because he wanted his aunt to cook it for the diner. From the arrival of Belacqua in the kitchen we are awaiting the death of the lobster. The strong reaction of Belacqua who feels pity for the creature keeps us in suspense because we do not know if he is going to stop his aunt. We can ask ourselves what Beckett wanted to express by giving a higher dimension to this scene of everyday life. First, we will describe the atmosphere of the text, which appears to be out of phase with reality. Then we will search what can appear as tragic in the excerpt and finally we will study what religious interpretation we can give to the text, which could contain a representation of the human condition. First and foremost, all along the text we can see that there is a discrepancy with reality. It creates a special atmosphere that easily attracts the reader’s attention. This atmosphere is first developed in the first paragraph where we find a description of what Belacqua sees in the streets near to his aunt’s house. Beckett creates a mysterious atmosphere by setting this part of the text in the beginning of the night. The twilight reminds the reader of the reddish light of the sun at that moment of the day, and of the rise of the moon at the mere time. Therefore it creates a strange backdrop for the scene, which appears very