La condesa sangrienta
1971
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3.70
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Acusada del asesinato de 650 jóvenes, Erzébet Báthory es una de las criminales más siniestras de la historia. En su castillo de los Cárpatos, a finales del siglo XVII, la condesa se cierne sobre sus víctimas para desangrarlas y conservar su juventud. Su leyenda maldita y fascinante pervive en el tiempo. La condesa sangrienta es una de las composiciones clave de Alejandra Pizarnik, sus páginas construyen un retrato perturbador del sadismo y la locura que las estampas del artista Santiago Caruso recrean con admirable maestría.
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Author
Alejandra Pizarnik
Author · 15 books
Born in Buenos Aires to Russian parents who had fled Europe and the Nazi Holocaust, Alejandra Pizarnik was destined for literary greatness as well as an early death. She died from an ostensibly self-administered overdose of barbiturates on 25 September 1972. A few words scribbled on a slate that same month, reiterating her desire to go nowhere "but to the bottom," sum up her lifelong aspiration as a human being and as a writer. The compulsion to head for the "bottom" or "abyss" points to her desire to surrender to nothingness in an ultimate experience of ecstasy and poetic fulfillment in which life and art would be fused, albeit at her own risk. "Ojalá pudiera vivir solamente en éxtasis, haciendo el cuerpo del poema con mi cuerpo" (If I could only live in nothing but ecstasy, making the body of the poem with my body).
