Author: Pizarnik, Alejandra.
Publisher: Lumen
Pages:256
An anthology of stories by Alejandra Pizarnik, an essential figure in twentieth-century Spanish-language literature and an enduring literary icon. “There is nothing more exciting or terrifying than rereading Pizarnik.” - Luna Miguel “Alejandra’s life is poetry, too.” - Mariana Enriquez Alejandra Pizarnik is one of the most influential authors of our times in Spanish. In her own words, her writing is “dense and dangerous,” a revolutionary experience for the reader - an internal and profound revolution, Gabriela Borrelli Azara writes in her epilogue, whose result is enigmatic. This anthology is a compilation of Pizarnik’s best prose, perhaps the least known aspect of her genre-bending work. As Luna Miguel explains in the prologue: “insisting that this isn’t poetry is debatable, as you will see [...] Her short, strange tales are like long poems. They embody [Pizarnik’s] poetic rhythms. The longer stories, too, contain all the tricks and snares of her poetry.” A Mystic Betrayal is a surprising, playful and sometimes delirious journey through Pizarnik’s narrative universe and offers us the keys to her work. An ironic and mocking take on reality and of herself, reflections on language and death, and the borders between madness and sanity. Edited and with a prologue by Luna Miguel Epilogue by Gabriela Borrelli Azara