In Search of Sonorous Loneliness: Types of Silence in Alejandra Pizarnik’s writing Authors Núria Calafell Sala Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Keywords: Alejandra Pizarnik’s diaries, silence, melancholy, rhythm Abstract Appearing from a painful conscience of a multiple lack –of language, of love, of selfness– Alejandra Pizarnik’s writing is explained as a struggle to overcome this conscience through the exercise with the blank page. It is tautened, twisted and pierced in such a manner that it shows that the experience of writing is an experience of limits, confronting the subject with itself and with language. All this permits the manifestation of different and contradictory types of silence: from a silence experimented by the body and its metamorphosis, to a mystic silence, from its manifestations in writing to autoreflexive silence. All of these talk about a “única tentación y la más alta promesa”. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2010-07-21 Issue No. 13 (2007): Mujer y silencio. Jeanne Hersch Section Dossier License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
