Samuel Beckett

I am always perplexed when I open a Beckett’s book. Phrases grammatically incorrect but full of sonority, alterations of syntax to introduce literary unthinkable spaces, unconnected ideas, whole stories without punctuation, loaded with beautiful repetitions of words and thoughts. Beckett's world addresses the domination that language has on the thinking and creativity of man, destroying the established codes and introducing new orders. The rupture and reprogramming of language that his work implies, does not prevent him from making literature, tell histories, evoke psychological states. The new processes allow contact with new spaces, which conventional grammar cannot achieve. This questioning of language operates to formal level but also mental. Their characters have lost the contact with reality because language is no longer linking the inside-outside, designating things and creating them. A signifier-signified rupture prevents Molloy the contact with world: “The words I heard were heard for the first time, as pure sounds, free of any meaning… The words I spoke seemed to me like a buzz insect" [1] Indeed, if the words disappear, things continue to exist for us? And if they continue to exist, would mean something?

[1] BECKETT, Samuel. Molloy