Aesthetics and sadism in Alejandra Pizarnik's La condesa sangrienta

Abstract

This paper constitues a metapoetical interpretacion of La condesa sangrienta, written by the argentinian poet Alejandra Pizarnik. Identifies the problem of the beauty and the production of the literary object as a thematical axis in the text, showing the categories and tropological operations that performs the reflection about it along the account of the Countess Erzébet Báthory's crimes.