Abstract

PULIDO MANCERA, Ángela Lucía. The Battle against Language and Time: an Approach to the Poems of Samuel Beckett. Lit. teor. hist. crit. [online]. 2016, vol.18, n.1, pp.147-170. ISSN 0123-5931.  https://doi.org/10.15446/lthc.v18n1.54683.

This essay is an interpretative reading of some poems by Samuel Beckett in light of the problems of the crisis of language and the devastating passage of time, which permeates his work. The objective is to show the different aspects of these problems and the relation between both. Thus, the use of echoes and repetitions, characteristic of the book Echo's Bones, the relation of language with time and the ideas that language interposes itself between the I and objects, that it is an obligation to express oneself and that the poetic act is a form of resistance, are discussed. The analysis of these problems highlights the aesthetic value of the poems of Beckett and takes into account his position regarding one of the most important questions of the modern lyrical tradition.

Keywords : Samuel Beckett; poems; modern poetry; crisis of language; time; resistance.

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