Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Gender, Sexuality and Silence(s) in the Writing of Alejandra Pizarnik
- Different Aspects of Humour and Wordplay in the Work of Alejandra Pizarnik
- The Tormenting Beauty of Ideals: A Deleuzian Interpretation of Alejandra Pizarnik's La condesa sangrienta and Franz Kafka's ‘In the Penal Colony’
- Alejandra Pizarnik, Surrealism and Reading
- Alejandra Pizarnik, the Perceptive Reader
- Alejandra Pizarnik's ‘palais du vocabulaire’: Constructing the ‘cuerpo poético’
- Alejandra Pizarnik's Poetry: Translating the Translation of Subjectivity
- The ‘Complete’ Works of Alejandra Pizarnik? Editors and Editions
- Afterword
- Subject Index
Alejandra Pizarnik, the Perceptive Reader
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Gender, Sexuality and Silence(s) in the Writing of Alejandra Pizarnik
- Different Aspects of Humour and Wordplay in the Work of Alejandra Pizarnik
- The Tormenting Beauty of Ideals: A Deleuzian Interpretation of Alejandra Pizarnik's La condesa sangrienta and Franz Kafka's ‘In the Penal Colony’
- Alejandra Pizarnik, Surrealism and Reading
- Alejandra Pizarnik, the Perceptive Reader
- Alejandra Pizarnik's ‘palais du vocabulaire’: Constructing the ‘cuerpo poético’
- Alejandra Pizarnik's Poetry: Translating the Translation of Subjectivity
- The ‘Complete’ Works of Alejandra Pizarnik? Editors and Editions
- Afterword
- Subject Index
Summary
No es un producto del azar el que casi todos los grandes poetas contemporáneos sean, paralelamente, grandes críticos. No nos referimos a la crítica literaria de carácter parcial … Pensamos en el poeta que se aproxima a interrogar la poesía de una manera única y casi siempre trágica.
Alejandra PizarnikMore than fifty years after the publication of her first collection of poetry and thirty-five years after her death, we are in a position to map out the route taken by criticism of Alejandra Pizarnik's work. At first, critical interest was centred on her poetry (including the prose poems and narratives), and this continues to be the focus of many critical studies. Later, scholars and essayists turned their attention to her ‘heterodox’ prose texts, particularly La condesa sangrienta and La bucanera de Pernambuco. In recent years, in response to the publication of the Correspondencia, Prosa and Diarios, critical emphasis has gradually shifted to a study of other texts by Pizarnik, and to the analysis of her readings of literary works, whether classic, contemporary, canonical or marginal. Many ‘informal’ instances of these readings are to be found in her books, notebooks and scrapbooks. Such studies allow for a greater understanding of Pizarnik's literary interests, of what she absorbed and whom she was influenced by, as well as what she rejected, and the overall development of her own creativity:
Queda por realizar … un estudio de Pizarnik como lectora, que debería comenzar por los subrayados de los libros de su biblioteca y extenderse a estos interesantes testimonios de su admiración y feroz exigencia literaria [los cuadernos de citas], para culminar en los muy interesantes estudios críticos que nos ha dejado y que no han sido aún reunidos ni citados en su totalidad. (Correspondencia, pp. 277–8)
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- Arbol de AlejandraPizarnik Reassessed, pp. 91 - 109Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2007