El infierno musical

Pizarnik, inscribed * an association copy

Oblong; inscribed by Pizarnik to the renowned literary critic Jorge Cruz; original wrappers.

First edition, inscribed, of this book by Alejandra Pizarnik in which she makes an inquisition about language and its functions. It is dedicated to the prestigious literary critic Jorge Cruz. Born in Buenos Aires in 1930, Cruz developed a renouned career for more than four decades in the prestigious newspaper LA NACION, where he began as a theater critic. In 1957 he joined the Literary Supplement. There he contributed to disseminate the work of prestigeous writers and made new authors known.

Alejandra Pizarnik, in full Flora Alejandra Pizarnik, (born April 16 or 29, 1936, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Died Sept. 25, 1972, Buenos Aires), Argentine poet whose poems are known for their stifling sense of exile and rootlessness. Pizarnik was born into a family of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe. She attended the University of Buenos Aires, where she studied philosophy and literature. Later she ventured into painting, studying with the Catalan Argentine painter Juan Batlle Planas. In 1960 she moved to Paris, where she worked for French publishing houses and magazines, published poetry, and translated into Spanish works of such writers as Henri Michaux, Antonin Artaud, Marguerite Duras, and Yves Bonnefoy. In 1965 she returned to Buenos Aires and published three of her eight collections of poetry, Los trabajos y las noches (1965; "The Works and the Nights"), Extracción de la piedra de la locura (1968; "Extraction of the Stone of Madness [or Folly]"), and El infierno musical (1971; "The Musical Hell"), as well as her famous prose work La condesa sangrienta (1965; "The Bloody Countess"), about the Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory.

Pizarnik´s first editions with inscriptions are seldom found.