Echo's Bones

‘Echo's Bones’ is a short story by Samuel Beckett. Originally written in 1933, the story was unpublished until 2014. The title is an allusion to the myth of Echo and Narcissus, in the version told in Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book III. In particular, the line "Echo's bones were turned to stone" is in Beckett's Dream of Fair to Middling Women notebook.

Echo's Bones

‘Echo's Bones’ is a short story by Samuel Beckett. Originally written in 1933, the story was unpublished until 2014. The title is an allusion to the myth of Echo and Narcissus, in the version told in Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book III. In particular, the line "Echo's bones were turned to stone" is in Beckett's Dream of Fair to Middling Women notebook.