A poetical itinerary of a body in vertigo: the persona of Alejandra Pizarnik and the ontological function of depersonalization of the poetical self

Authors

  • Nada Kavčič

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/vh.25.1.217-230

Keywords:

Alejandra Pizarnik, corporality, the ontological function of the poetical language, depersonalization, unrepeatable experiment

Abstract

In this article we take as our starting point the bond between the corporeal and the word and use this to analyse the process of depersonalization and the creation of the poetical persona in the works of Alejandra Pizarnik. We seek to define the disappearance of the subject engendered by the writing process itself with reference to individual poems by Pizarnik. As a result of the continual disappearance of the subject and of the inadequacy of language, the act of writing can be understood as an unrepeatable experiment as well as a reflection of a failed attempt by the poet to merge the corporeal and the word as well as life and poetry as a post-death experience, since the subject alienates its own corporeality by writing as if deceased. This conceit has the effect of enabling poem to be seen as an eternal invocation of the absent.

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Author Biography

Nada Kavčič

Nada Kavčič (1991) es estudiante en los departamentos de Literatura comparada y teoría literaria y de Filología española. De momento está escribiendo su trabajo de fin de máster sobre la obra de Alejandra Pizarnik y un libro de traducciones de Alejandra Pizarnik en colaboración con el poeta esloveno Miklavž Komelj y el artista venezolano Yucef Merhi, que se publicará como parte del proyecto de la 32 Bienal Internacional de Artes Gráficas -en MGLC (El centro internacional de artes gráficas y figurativas) en Ljubljana, Eslovenia.

Published

08.12.2017

How to Cite

Kavčič, N. (2017). A poetical itinerary of a body in vertigo: the persona of Alejandra Pizarnik and the ontological function of depersonalization of the poetical self. Verba Hispanica, 25(1), 217–230. https://doi.org/10.4312/vh.25.1.217-230

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Literature