Alcune apparizioni dell’Ebreo errante in Argentina

Abstract

Between the 40s and 60s of the 20th century, some Argentine authors gravitating in the orbit of the magazine «Sur» rewrote the history of the wandering Jew. They are Jorge Luis Borges in El Inmortal, Manuel Mujica Lainez in El Vagamundo, 1839 and Enrique Anderson Imbert in El Grimorio. In Argentina, however, there is a writer who perfectly embodies the figure of the eternal wanderer punished by Christ and men: she is Alejandra Pizarnik, whose life and works are full of references to wandering. A worthy heir of Kafka, the Jewish-Argentine writer is convinced, like the Bohemian writer, that she deserves condemnation and punishment – human and divine – for having chosen to dedicate her entire life to literature.

10.4424/lam132024-8