In Search of the Pizarnikian Character: Consecration and Author's Figure in Alejandra Pizarnik's Diaries Cover Image

En busca del personaje alejandrino: consagración y figura de autor en los diarios de Alejandra Pizarnik
In Search of the Pizarnikian Character: Consecration and Author's Figure in Alejandra Pizarnik's Diaries

Author(s): Violeta Garrido
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Instytut Studiów Iberyjskich i Iberoamerykańskich, Wydział Neofilologii, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Keywords: Alejandra Pizarnik; Diaries; author’s figure; pizarnikian character; consecration

Summary/Abstract: Arguing the disadvantage of a purely referential reading of Alejandra Pizarnik’s diaries, this article explores the way in which the different strategies of self-representation put into practice in them together make up a literary object in its own right that aims to contribute to the consolidation of the author’s public image. Thus, we start from the premise that there is a persistent will to record a “literaturized self” that assumes the aesthetic coordinates of much of the European canon (especially the French one) in term of formulation of the typical experience of modernity. Through an “author’s figure” markedly anchored in dandyism and bohemianism, Pizarnik aspires to consecrate herself in her literary field.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 33
  • Page Range: 25-43
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Spanish