La biografí­a y el ‘mito personal del escritor’. César Aira y Alejandra Pizarnik

Abstract

In this article (Biography and the ‘writer’s personal myth’. César Aira and Alejandra Pizarnik) we proposes to read the literary biography “Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972)” ””written by César Aira and published in 2001”” focusing on the way the link between literature and life is unraveled.forged. Trying to overcome the “smear campaign” circulating as a version of her life, built by her exegetes and sometimes promoted by Pizarnik herself, Aira tries to think of the creative process from the side ofthe life viewpoint regarding of the a “writer’s personal myth.” The figure is actually the a procedure that allows him to consider the mediation between life and literature as a transmutation,, this is, insofar as an artistic reformulation recreation of that lived throughwhat has been lived, according to a logic that wto be describede attempt to describe.