El movimiento y el espacio en la poesía de Samuel Beckett

Abstract

This text intends to analyse the way movement and space are created in Samuel Beckett’s poetry and how they change in his works, considering the references and allusions to specific places and routes in the poems of the first part of his production, in comparison to the growing absence of this motion and of the allusions in the later poems. More than that, we intend to observe how the movement is incorporated by the language, the construction, and the form of these texts. Hence, the analysis of the poems may contribute to the perception of the contrasts between inner and outer worlds in Beckett’s oeuvre. The discussion is guided by Theodor Adorno’s perspective on the distinct phases of Modernism. Among the aspects that can be read in Samuel Beckett’s post-war production, the theme of the immobility and of the condemnation to the confinement in the space of the skull, in the inner world, convicted to the uncertainty and imprecision of the words. Therefore, a dystopic face is revealed in the authors final poetry – the destabilisation of subject and society as categories. This creates an experience centred in the mediation of the senses, the drives, and the language.