THE MECHANIZATION OF SEXUALITY IN BECKETT'S EARLY WORK

Abstract

This article aims to examine the relation between sexuality and the imagery of the in Beckett's early work. It starts with an analysis of an early scene of Dream of Fair to Middling Women, where Belacqua's disguised masturbation is represented as mechanical. I foreground the fact that the obsession with the womb, linked to the avoidance of the physicality of women, underlies the mechanical imagery in his early works. In the process, I also attempt to situate Beckett in the context of mechano-modernism, by comparing him with the makers of the bachelor machine or the futurist Marinetti.

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