Alejandra Pizarnik

Alejandra Pizarnik’s work presents itself as a fascinating intellectual mystery eager to be unveiled.What immediately captures the attention is the element of fracture - splitting - dissolution of this lyrical subject who disintegrates until she almost disappears, who hides behind masks and who never manages to come to an end or to fulfil herself. In addition to this rupture, it is a revolutionary and profoundly seductive production, in Cristina Piña’s opinion, thus becoming an almost unique event in Argentine and Latin American literature; although, as we shall see in our attempt to frame Alejandra’s work, it will form part of the series of productions constituted by the nocturnal and sometimes sinister, of the literature of the occult.For this reason, to approach the work of Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972) will be to enter into a hermetic, at first sight, impenetrable writing. To encounter an accursed author, a perverse mixture of purity and provocation, of innocence and cruelty.Her poetry presents a constant detachment from reality and this will become a constructive principle of the poet and a productive strategy of her poem.