Considering a periodization of the work of the Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972), which divides it into two large periods: one constituted by the poetry books published during her life in book format, and the other by the writings published as a book after the death of the author, I propose to think certain phenomena of self-censorship and censorship that operated on the writing of this last period. I take, as a ‘witness case’ of the contradictions surrounding these posthumous writings, the reading of Arturo Carrera’s poem “Written with a nyctograph” that the author performs in the dark. I also consider the Mobius strip between literature and life in Pizarnikian texts and self-figurations, in order to think about how certain criticism, taking this continuum into account, denies literary status to Pizarnik’s posthumous writings.
Ludmila Soledad Barbero, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Literatura Hispanoamericana CONICET ludmilabarbero@gmail.com
How to Cite
Barbero, L. S. (2022). With a knife raised in the dark: “Escrito con un nictógrafo”, Pizarnik’s performance and censorship. Nomadías, (30), pp. 81–105. Retrieved from https://nomadias.uchile.cl/index.php/NO/article/view/66092
