WRITING AND LANGUAGE IN ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK
Keywords: Alejandra Pizarnik; Extraction of the stone of madness; A Musical hell; diaries.
The works The Extraction of the Stone of Madness (1968) and A Musical Hell (1971) of the
argentine writer Alejandra Pizarnik are characterized by the use of the prose poem and the
presence of themes that border on the obscene, death and language, and differ radically from
her other five books published until then, in which concise verses predominated. Interested in
the point of fracture that seems to emerge from 1968 onwards in her writing, this research
questions whether the contradictions are part of the literary-aesthetic project of the writer
Alejandra Pizarnik, or whether they mark a rupture. To this end, we will start from her last
two works and some coordinates drawn from her diaries (1968-1972) as a way of reading
what she insists on testifying about her relationship with language, from her ordinary and
everyday poetic prose.