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Beckett has been one of the most important authors for J. M. Coetzee and his influence is clearly felt in Coetzee's novels. In this paper, I aim to reconsider the relation between modernism and postcolonialism by examining how Beckett's (modernist) legacy is inherited by Coetzee's (postcolonial) novels.

This paper wants to situate Beckett's work within the cultural context of the beginning of the twentieth century when acoustic technology was strongly linked to the art of the avant-garde. I am going to analyze the 'voice of the telephone' in and I shall accentuate the pertinence of the idea of "the discourse network of 1900" (Friedrich Kittler) regarding Beckett's work. Finally I want to show how acoustic technology appears in and in In these processes the figure of Echo has been mechanized and materialized by Beckett in our view.