Cráneos, ántrax y palabras gastadas. Una paleontología de las tradiciones culturales que subsisten en la poesía de Samuel Beckett

Abstract

Within the framework of the British imperial advance and the nationalist counteroffensive, the exhausted landscapes of Samuel Beckett's poetry protect a deeper set of Irish literary traditions. While his style incorporates characteristic aspects of Protestant culture —laconism, austerity and control—, it also recovers facets of that "senile, grandiovetusta and exhausted" Ireland described by James Joyce in a delusional key, which allows us to connect his poetics with some elements of the ancient Celtic culture, devoted to music and rhythm. Beckettian excavation: fossil forms that return to the surface in all their wild power by virtue of a mechanical exploration that reproduces celebratory tendences of the past.