La falta y el sesgo: los poemas de Samuel Beckett según Thomas Kinsella
In the spring of 1993, Irish poet Thomas Kinsella (1928-2021) writes a commentary on Samuel Beckett’s poetry, published in the Journal of Beckett Studies. This commentary is shortly titled “Poems of Samuel Beckett” and it appears to serve the purpose of finding a common understanding of, and a close...
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I28-R145-13905_oai2025-11-17 Montenegro, Agustín 2023-12-27 In the spring of 1993, Irish poet Thomas Kinsella (1928-2021) writes a commentary on Samuel Beckett’s poetry, published in the Journal of Beckett Studies. This commentary is shortly titled “Poems of Samuel Beckett” and it appears to serve the purpose of finding a common understanding of, and a closeness to, Irish literary tradition. Nevertheless, Kinsella’s findings turn out to be disappointing: from his point of view, there is an entire dimension “missing” in Beckett’s poetry. In this article we will seek to analyze Kinsella’s commentary and relocate it within its context of appearance, reading it as a possible dialogue between both authors. Our hypothesis sustains that Kinsella’s critique of Beckett’s poetics can be read as a strategy to re-position Beckett’s works towards the margins of national literature. According to Kinsella, there’s a “missing dimension” in Beckett’s poems, a consequence of his solipsistic uprotedness and incommunication. Nevertheless, as we approach those aspects of Beckett’s poetry which Kinsella deliberately decides not to take into account, we will be able to find that his analysis is bound by a biased point of view. Even more: once identified, that biased reading proves that there are more similarities between Kinsella’s and Beckett’s poetry than Kinsella himself is willing to acknowledge. En la primavera de 1993, el poeta irlandés Thomas Kinsella (1928-2021) publica en el segundo volumen de la revista Journal of Beckett Studies un comentario sobre los poemas de Samuel Beckett, titulado secamente “Poems of Samuel Beckett” [“Poemas de Samuel Beckett”]. El comentario de Kinsella parece servir al propósito de buscar en Beckett un conocimiento común y un contacto con la tradición irlandesa. Sin embargo, se encuentra con un hallazgo decepcionante: en los poemas de Samuel Beckett hay una dimensión que “falta”: la dimensión de la comunicación, de la relación con una tradición, está ausente. Lo único que encuentra Kinsella en Beckett es el desarraigo de la psiquis, buscándose a sí misma como material para el poema. El motivo de este artículo será el análisis y la contextualización de este texto en un posible diálogo entre Samuel Beckett y Thomas Kinsella, bajo la hipótesis de que la distancia que el poeta comentador marca con respecto al poeta comentado constituye una operación crítica en el campo de la literatura nacional irlandesa, destinada a reubicar a la obra poética de Beckett (a partir de aquella “falta”) en un lugar marginal, dominado por el desarraigo y la incomunicación. Sin embargo, al indagar en las áreas que Kinsella decide no analizar podremos ver que su análisis se sostiene sobre un fuerte sesgo: delimitando ese sesgo podremos encontrar que entre la poética de Kinsella y la de Beckett existen más similitudes que las que el propio poeta parece querer hallar. application/pdf https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/Beckettiana/article/view/13905 10.34096/beckettiana.n20.13905 spa Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Universidad de Buenos Aires https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/Beckettiana/article/view/13905/12671 Derechos de autor 2023 Beckettiana Beckettiana; Núm. 20 (2023) 2683-9679 0327-7550 . Poetry – Ireland – Samuel Beckett – Thomas Kinsella – uprootedness Poesía – Irlanda – Samuel Beckett – Thomas Kinsella - desarraigo La falta y el sesgo: los poemas de Samuel Beckett según Thomas Kinsella info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=becke&d=13905_oai |
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In the spring of 1993, Irish poet Thomas Kinsella (1928-2021) writes a commentary on Samuel Beckett’s poetry, published in the Journal of Beckett Studies. This commentary is shortly titled “Poems of Samuel Beckett” and it appears to serve the purpose of finding a common understanding of, and a closeness to, Irish literary tradition. Nevertheless, Kinsella’s findings turn out to be disappointing: from his point of view, there is an entire dimension “missing” in Beckett’s poetry.
In this article we will seek to analyze Kinsella’s commentary and relocate it within its context of appearance, reading it as a possible dialogue between both authors. Our hypothesis sustains that Kinsella’s critique of Beckett’s poetics can be read as a strategy to re-position Beckett’s works towards the margins of national literature. According to Kinsella, there’s a “missing dimension” in Beckett’s poems, a consequence of his solipsistic uprotedness and incommunication.
Nevertheless, as we approach those aspects of Beckett’s poetry which Kinsella deliberately decides not to take into account, we will be able to find that his analysis is bound by a biased point of view. Even more: once identified, that biased reading proves that there are more similarities between Kinsella’s and Beckett’s poetry than Kinsella himself is willing to acknowledge. |
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