{"id":2079,"date":"2011-07-04T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icdublinlibrary.wordpress.com\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2014-01-29T13:28:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T12:28:24","slug":"alejandra-pizarnik-autora-del-mes-author-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/dublin\/alejandra-pizarnik-autora-del-mes-author-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Alejandra Pizarnik: Autora del mes \/ Author of the month"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alejandra Pizarnik naci\u00f3 en Buenos Aires el 29 de abril de 1936. Sus padres eran emigrantes jud\u00edos de la localidad ruso-polaca de Rovne. Flora, en su juventud, cambiar\u00eda definitivamente su nombre por el de Alejandra.<\/p>\n

De ni\u00f1a aprende a leer y escribir en yiddish en un centro fomativo hebreo, y habla espa\u00f1ol con un fuerte acento centroeuropeo. Su extrema timidez le hace tartamudear.<\/p>\n

Al comenzar la universidad, su estilo es ya bohemio y su vestimenta desali\u00f1ada. Obsesionada con su peso, comienza a tomar anfetaminas, con las que intenta tambi\u00e9n olvidar otros problemas que acomplejan su car\u00e1cter como el asma y el acn\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Ingresa en la Facultad de Filosof\u00eda y Letras de Buenos Aires, pero se siente decepcionada con sus estudios. Posteriormente, intenta completar la carrera de Letras entre 1955 y 1957. Al final, se inscribe en la Escuela de Periodismo donde estudia literatura moderna y queda fascinada por Joyce, Breton, Proust, Gide, Claudel y Kierkegaard.<\/p>\n

La terapia psicoanal\u00edtica que sigue para intentar resolver sus problemas de car\u00e1cter la acerca al surrealismo, clave para interpretar su poes\u00eda que, como explica Enrique Molina, gira en torno a la fascinaci\u00f3n de la infancia perdida y la fascinaci\u00f3n de la muerte… “igualmente deslumbradora una y otra, igualmente plenas de v\u00e9rtigo”. (\u00abLa hija del insomnio\u00bb, Alejandra Pizarnik. Semblanza, M\u00e9xico D.F., Fondo de Cultura Econ\u00f3mica, 1992, p. 28).<\/p>\n

La tierra m\u00e1s ajena, (Buenos Aires, Botella al Mar, 1955), es su primer libro, al que siguen La \u00faltima inocencia (Buenos Aires, Ediciones Poes\u00eda, 1956) y Las aventuras perdidas (Buenos Aires, Altamar, 1958).<\/p>\n

En 1961, instalada en Par\u00eds, conoce y entabla amistad con Octavio Paz e Italo Calvino entre otros. Un a\u00f1o m\u00e1s tarde publica la revista Sur publica \u00c1rbol de Diana. Los trabajos y las noches ve la luz en 1965 y los \u00abPeque\u00f1os poemas en prosa\u00bb, llegan a los lectores a trav\u00e9s de La Naci\u00f3n, el 21 de marzo de ese mismo a\u00f1o.<\/p>\n

En torno a esta \u00e9poca, la revista Sur le sirve a Alejandra para acceder a Silvina Ocampo, cuya figura literaria e \u00edntima ser\u00e1n de especial relevancia para la joven poetisa.<\/p>\n

En 1968 publica Extracci\u00f3n de la piedra de locura (Buenos Aires, Sudamericana).<\/p>\n

Siquiera de forma temporal, el proceso terap\u00e9utico al que se somete Alejandra mejora su estado an\u00edmico. En 1971 publica en forma de libro La condesa sangrienta y El infierno musical.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Sin embargo, el 25 de septiembre de 1972, con tan solo 36 a\u00f1os, Alejandra se quita la vida con una sobredosis de barbit\u00faricos durante un fin de semana de permiso del hospital en el que se hallaba internada para tratar su cuadro depresivo, tras otros dos intentos de suicidio.<\/p>\n

Alejandra Pizarnik habr\u00eda cumplido 75 a\u00f1os en 2011. Durante el Dublin Book Festival, una de sus lectoras se acerc\u00f3 a nosotros y nos habl\u00f3 de ella. Este es nuestro peque\u00f1o homenaje. Alejandra Pizarnik es nuestra autora del mes de julio 2011.<\/p>\n

Los datos y citas de este peque\u00f1o resumen bio-bibliogr\u00e1fico est\u00e1n tomados del magn\u00edfico monogr\u00e1fico elaborado por Guzm\u00e1n Urrero Pe\u00f1a<\/strong> para el Centro Virtual Cervantes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Flora Pizarnik was born in Buenos Aires on the 29th April, 1936. Her parents were Jewish emigrants from the Russian-Polish region of Rovne. In her youth, Flora changed her name definitively to Alejandra.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a young girl, she learnt to read and write Yiddish in a Hebrew educational centre, and spoke Spanish with a strong central European accent. An extremely shy young woman, she developed a stammer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By the time she started university, she had a bohemian look and a scruffy style of dress. Obsessed with her weight, she started taking amphetamines in an intent to forget the other issues with which she had developed a complex, such as her asthma and acne.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0She was accepted into the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts in the University of Buenos Aires, but she was not happy in her studies. She later attempted to finish her Arts degree between the years of 1955 and 1957. She finally enrolled in the School of Journalism, where she studied modern literature and developed a fascination for Joyce, Breton, Proust, Gide, Claudel and Kierkegaard.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Her on-going experiences with psycho-analytical therapy, which she underwent to try to resolve deep-rooted issues, lead her to surrealism, an essential ingredient in the interpretation of her poetry, explains Enrique Molina, which focuses on both her fascination with the idea of a lost childhood and with death\u2026\u201dboth equally dazzling, equally full of vertigo\u201d (\u201cLa hija del insomnio\u201d, Alejandra Pizarnik. Semblanza, M\u00e9xico D.F., Fondo de Cultura Econ\u00f3mica, 1992, p. 28).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0La tierra m\u00e1s ajena (Buenos Aires, Botella al Mar, 1955), was her first book to be published, followed by La \u00faltima inocencia (Buenos Aires, Ediciones Poes\u00eda, 1956) and Las aventuras perdidas (Buenos Aires, Altamar, 1958).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0In 1961, she moved to Paris, where she met and became friends with Octavio Paz and Italo Calvino, along with other authors. The following year, \u201c\u00c1rbol de Diana\u201d was published by Sur magazine. In 1965, it was the turn of \u201cLos trabajos y las noches\u201d, shortly followed by \u201cPeque\u00f1os poemas en prosa\u201d on the 21st March of that same year, courtesy of La Naci\u00f3n.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Around that same time, through her contacts at Sur magazine, Alejandra had the fortune of meeting Argentinian author Silvina Ocampo, whose literary work and personal circumstances were of special relevance to the young poet.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0In 1968, \u201cExtracci\u00f3n de la piedra de locura\u201d was published (Buenos Aires, Sudamericana).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Although short-lived, the therapy which Alejandra was undergoing at the time succeeded in improving her state of mind. 1971 saw the publication of La condesa sangrienta and El infierno musical.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, on the 25th September 1972, at just 36 years of age, Alejandra took her own life through an overdoses of barbiturates during a weekend\u2019s leave from the in-patient hospital at which we was receiving treatment for depression, following two previous suicide attempts.\u00a0\u00a0Alejandra Pizarnik would have been 75 years old in 2011. During the Dublin Book Festival, one of her fans approached us and spoke to us about her. This is our little homage to her. Alejandra Pizarnik is our author of the month throughout the month of July 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n

The facts and quotes in this short bio-bibliographical summary were taken from the wonderful monograph written by Guzm\u00e1n Urrero Pe\u00f1a<\/strong> for the Centro Virtual Cervantes<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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