What do you know about Alejandra Pizarnik’s biography? Many said he was born with darkness in his soul, his rebellion, his tragic air and his passion fed on his own darkness to weave a unique and irreplaceable poetry, spoke of prisons, eyes, very heavy stones and Elizabeth Bathory, the bloodied Countess. , sailed like no one else between madness and sleep, to leave us an exceptional work.
This woman always felt foreign in this world and spoke Spanish with a strong European accent, the complexes and weight gain have eating them. Was your childhood marked by disappointment, fear, emptiness?wrote. It is also said that he tried everything in life, journalism, philosophy, painting ?, but only poetry and amphetamines relieved his nervous thoughts.
- Alejandra Pizarnik was an Argentine poet who left her mark in Paris and imprinted her mind and heart from the last stage of surrealism.
- Was friends with André Breton.
- Georges Bataille.
- Yves Bonnefoy and.
- Above all.
- Someone fundamental in her life and also in her career: Octavio Paz.
No one has explored suffering and even madness like her, this unfolding woman claimed to have two twins killed in her: Alejandra of the past and Alejandra of the present, who never dared to be, committed suicide in 1972 at the age of 12. 36. However, it was an announced end, as she spent her whole life in conflict, in this abyss that has swallowed her several times. In the end, he found the deliverance of his torments, of his darkness.
To this day, Alejandra Pizarnik is known as the last American poet. To read it is also to immerse yourself in romanticism, surrealism, the Gothic universe and also psychoanalysis, a unique universe that leaves no one indifferent.
“I don’t know anything about birds / I don’t know the history of fire. But do I think my loneliness must have wings? R. Pizarnik?
Born in Avellaneda, a suburb of Buenos Aires, it probably wasn’t easy for Alejandra Pizarnik, his family was of Russian Jewish origin and carried the pain of leaving her home country, Holocaust marks, horror and personal losses sustained during the war.
This shadow has left a mark on her since childhood, an inherited injury that was aggravated by a physical appearance she did not accept, the rejection of a mother who valued her sister more, and a health in which asthma and stuttering limited much of her life. All this led her, from an early age, to find hes hemselves different, within a character in which she was not recognized.
Literature and philosophy were the safe space in which she had taken refuge as a child, that literary love quickly aroused her need to write and also opened the door to a rebellion that would characterize her forever. his way of dressing, his short hair, his particular style.
His ingenuity and art began to bear witness to his poetic charisma before arriving at university, also at that time, the need to protect himself in another refuge that had nothing to do with books or writing, his concern for weight gain and rejection by his own body led to the use of barbiturates and amphetamines.
In 1954 Alejandra Pizarnik began studying philosophy and literature at the University of Buenos Aires. However, he was unable to complete the course. Then he tried journalism and didn’t like it either. He then began an artistic training with the surrealist painter Batlle Planas. Her country has become too small for her and her eagerness to find meaning and a channel of self-realization led her to spend a few years in Paris.
Between 1960 and 1964, for example, he lived a rewarding stage in which he began working in translation and literary criticism for several magazines, at which point he met two very important figures in his life: Julio Cortzar and the Mexican poet Octavio Paz. who wrote the foreword to his book of poems Tree of Diana (1962).
In 1965 and already in Argentina, he continued his literary work, his work was appreciated by the cultural community of the time and received two scholarships, Guggenheim and Fullbright, however, he did not take advantage. His depressive attacks, his discouragement and the search for something that would make sense of his existence never ended.
His friends said that after returning from Paris, he began to create a scab of progressive isolation around him, after his father’s death suicide attempts began, and his addiction to sleeping pills became more intense, almost desperate, to the point. who in 1972 entered a psychiatric hospital with a deep depression.
On 25 September she was granted a hospitalization permit and ended up taking 50 tablets from Seconal, there was no turning back and finally Alejandra Pizarnik found her release, she was 36 years old.
“Among other things, I write that what I fear will not happen; to ward off what hurts me, to ward off evil. They say the poet is a great therapist. In this sense, the poetic mission would involve exorcizing, moving away and also repairing. Writing a poem is healing the fundamental wound: sadness. Why are we all hurt? R. Pizarnik?
Much of Alejandra Pizarnik’s work revolves around two areas: her childhood in Buenos Aires and her fascination with death; In addition, it should be noted that today we can admire much of his work thanks to Julio Cortzar and, above all, his first wife, Aurora Bernorz.
Alejandra’s family, always puritanical and even tired of her daughter’s tastes and literary style, came to nearly destroy her personal notebooks and texts; In addition, Argentina’s cultural repression has jeopardized the preservation of some of his work, his newspapers, for example. , were taken to Paris, where Cortzar and his wife kept them until Columbia University stayed with them.
His lyrical work is included in seven collections of poetry: The Foreign Land (1955), The Last Innocence (1956), The Lost Adventures (1958), Diana’s Tree (1962), The Works and the Nights (1965), Extraction from the Stone of Madness (1968) and The Musical Hell (1971).
Subsequently several publications of his last poems were made, plays such as Os possessed among lilacs and the novels A Bucaneira de Pernambuco and Hilda, the polygraph. One of her most famous and notable stories can also be quoted: The Bloody Countess.
Alejandra Pizarnik writes frantically from the age of 15, she did so with devotion, because it was her only way of salvation in a world of which she never felt part, your poetry full of symbols, silences, madness, shadow of death. Delusions? Poetry, he said, was the place where impossible becomes possible.
He was also the voice of feminism; His words had a subversive beauty, in which only truths fit. It also criticizes labels, conventions and the obligation to be part of a social model. This woman doesn’t fit any expectations.
Hence the boredom, drowsiness and sticky melancholy that gagged his heart to permeate his poems. Alejandra Pizarnik was the last cursed poet, a great writer who continues to impress us with her verses, her distant but still angry voice.
“Am I not just from this world? I live on the moon frantically. I’m not afraid to die; Am I afraid of this strange and aggressive land?I can’t think of concrete things; I’m not interested in them. “I can’t talk like everyone else. My words are strange and come from far away, where not, from encounters with someone?What am I going to do if I dive into my fantastic dreams and don’t come back?Because it’s going to have to happen someday, I’m going to leave and I won’t know how to get back?