El mito de Eco y la escisión del sujeto. Representaciones del silencio en Echo’s Bones de Samuel Beckett

Abstract

This paper aims at giving an insight into Samuel Beckett’s Echo’s Bones (1935) as a rehearsal of the different representations of silence that are developed along his literary production. In order to do so, I will first study the myth of Echo as the epitome of the experience of the squizoid subject basing my analysis on the concepts of petrifaction and the split of the mind and the body. The second part of the paper will apply these parameters to the consideration of the specificity of Beckett’s experience reflected in this collection that expands his poetics to the universal struggles of the mankind. Stemming from this analysis I will initiate the search of the physical and linguistic silences that meet in Echo’s Bones  and find in the representation of rotten subjects and escaping minds, the perfect space to merge Echo’s solitude, fragmentation and silence with the human being and the schizophrenia.