El Centro Ausente: El Innombrable de Beckett (The Absent Center: Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable)
Atlantis (Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies), Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 45-64, 1991
19 Pages Posted: 24 Mar 2012
Date Written: March 23, 2012
Abstract
El “personaje” del Innombrable se toma como paradigma de la escritura del autor por su estructuración metalingüística y por el papel de operador metaficcional que desempeña en la trilogía de Beckett MOLLOY, MALONE DIES, THE UNNAMABLE. Se convierte en un centro productor de los sentidos múltiples que exploramos en este trabajo, precisamente por la negatividad de su caracterización. Se tienden puentes con la desconstrucción como teoría que ha explorado el papel de la negatividad a nivel discursivo.
Beckett's "character" The Unnamable is regarded here as a paradigm of the author's writing, because of his metalinguistic structuring and because of the role it performs as a metafictional operator in Beckett's trilogy MOLLOY, MALONE DIES, THE UNNAMABLE. He becomes a generative center of the multiple senses we explore in this paper precisely because of the negativity of his characterization. The analysis explores some common points with deconstruction, as a theory which has explored the role of negativity in discourse.
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Keywords: Narrative, Experimental fiction, Metafiction, Samuel Beckett, Modernism, Reflexive narrative, Metalanguage, Deconstruction, Negativity
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