La mecedora de Beckett

Samuel Beckett premiered Rockaby in 1981, one of his most intense monologues for women. In this drama, an aged woman remains seated in a rocking chair, a repeated resource in his works and of fertile symbolism -old age, calm, the passage of time, sleep, rhythm, heartbeat...- Let's say that it is Beckett himself who is rocking in his chair. rocking chair and who, from within and from outside himself, in a dislocated alterity and questioning the system of representation of language, tells us about the impossibility of any attempt at verbal communication, about the failure of our perceptions and about the demise of hope, a whole poetics of silence and of that aesthetic creed of the best failure that he enunciated in his work Rumbo a peor (1983). This volume is not an academic essay, nor is it intended to be. The author is modest enough to state that he would not know how to add anything substantial to what has been said and written, a whole critical deluge on the work of the unrepeatable Irish author, a creator of perennial vitality who knew how to decolonize language, return words to their purity germinal at the same time as its desolating silence, and show us, from a disturbing perplexity, even through a foreign language, the tragic incommunicability, not without tenderness, humor and parody, of the human being.