La conciencia del exilio en Julio Cortázar y Alejandra Pizarnik

Abstract

In this article, the author invites us to go along with the characters in Rayuela and the lyrical and autobiographical “I” of Pizarnik, through the streets, squares and boulevards of Paris in the sixties. A Paris that is bright and dark at the same time, allowing both Cortázar as Alejandra to build their space for invention, to realize their creative utopia and wake up their ghosts in the Parisian night; for Cortázar, tango, his child’s world and his idealized Maga; while for Alejandra, cruel ghost of her mother, who accompanied her in her attic in Paris and will awaken that creative demon expressed in her book Árbol de Diana. For both authors the experience of exile, as well as for other Latin American writers, is the re-encounter with a dazzling aesthetic world, with a paradoxical modernity and above all, with the possibility of re-creating and maintaining a critical attitude.