Modulaciones del narrador en <i>More Pricks than Kicks</i>, de Samuel Beckett

Abstract

This paper explores the artistic appropriation of narrative traditions inherited from 19th-century Realism by Samuel Beckett through More Pricks than Kicks. This collection of short prose pieces does not remain oblivious to categories such as time, place, character construction, character’s motivation and story crafting in terms of verisimilitude, though it manipulates them in such a way that it evinces their fictional nature and thus disobeys the mimetic mandate of realist aesthetics. It is the narrative voice that makes room for destabilising movements but, in doing so, it places itself under close scrutiny. Consequently, the narrator of More Pricks than Kicks reveals its paradoxical status.