O(S) SENTIDO(S) DA EXPERIÊNCIA DO EXISTIR

A POESIA DE ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK EM DIÁLOGO COM WALTER BENJAMIN

Abstract

The human experience of existing in the contemporary world reveals the disintegration that pervades it, making visible the subjective impacts of a world in collapse in the face of technological advances and capitalism. The process that establishes modernity marks a rupture between the ancient world and the present: if tradition and popular wisdom once constituted a reservoir of meaning transmitted between generations and guaranteed the individual a bond of collective belonging, in contemporary times the subject finds himself disconnected from these references, incorporated into an experience of disorientation. It is against this backdrop that the poetics of Alejandra Pizarnik take shape, marked by absence and by the attempt to name a world in ruins, not through the recomposition of lost experience, but through the staging of its emptying. In this sense, her work finds deep resonance with Walter Benjamin's diagnosis, according to which we live in a time when authentic experience (Erfahrung), once shared and transmissible, is “in decline,” being progressively replaced by fragmented experience (Erlebnis), characteristic of the modern world. This work investigates the similarities between Benjamin's reflection and the work of the Argentine writer, based on the hypothesis that Pizarnik's writing reflects, in its own form and theme, the impasses of the modern subject in the face of the crisis of experience.