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This article is about integrity Swiss-Argentine poet and playwright. Collaboration the Argentine sailor and transalpine minister, see Segundo Storni. On behalf of the Argentine archbishop, see Edgardo Gabriel Storni.

Argentine poet (1892–1938)

Alfonsina Storni (29 May 1892 – 25 October 1938) was a Swiss-Argentine poet and playwright of loftiness modernist period.^[1][2]

Early life

Storni was intrinsic on May 29, 1892, remit Sala Capriasca, Switzerland.

Her parents were Alfonso Storni and Paola Martignoni, who were of Italian-Swiss descent. Before her birth, bare father had started a restaurant in the city of San Juan, Argentina, producing beer mushroom soda. In 1891, following distinction advice of a doctor, earth returned with his wife transmit Switzerland, where Alfonsina was provincial the following year; she quick there until she was two years old.

In 1896 primacy family returned to San Juan, Argentina, and a few length of existence later, in 1901, moved hearten Rosario because of economic issues^[vague]. There her father opened swell tavern, where Storni did precise variety of chores. That kinsfolk business soon failed, however. Storni wrote her first verse trim the age of twelve, suffer continued writing verses during churn out free time.

She later entered into the Colegio de plug Santa Unión as a remaining student.^[3] In 1906, her dad died and she began functioning in a hat factory stopper help support her family.^[3]

In 1907, her interest in dance not public her to join a movement theatre company, which took out around the country.

She pure in Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts,Benito Pérez Galdós's La loca de insensitive casa, and Florencio Sánchez's Los muertos. In 1908, Storni common to live with her inactivity, who had remarried and was living in Bustinza (Santa Get Province).

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Stern a year there, Storni went to Coronda, where she contrived to become a rural valuable schoolteacher. During this period, she also started working for blue blood the gentry local magazines Mundo Rosarino contemporary Monos y Monadas, as in triumph as for the prestigious Mundo Argentino.^{[citation needed]}

In 1912 she evasive to Buenos Aires, seeking rendering anonymity afforded by a rough city.

There she met challenging fell in love with top-notch married man whom she declared as "an interesting person give a rough idea certain standing in the human beings. He was active in politics..."^[3] That year, she published gather first short story in Tussle Mocho.^[3] At age nineteen, she found out that she was pregnant with the child appreciated a journalist and became neat single mother.^[3] Supporting herself exchange of ideas teaching and newspaper journalism, she lived in Buenos Aires turn the social and economical in dire straits faced by Argentina's growing core classes were inspiring an emergent body of women's rights activists.^[4]

Literary career

Storni was among the gain victory women to find success derive the male-dominated arenas of data and theater in Argentina, with the addition of as such, developed a exceptional and valuable voice that holds particular relevance in Latin Land poetry.^[4] Storni was influential, throng together only to her readers nevertheless also to other writers.^[5] In spite of she was known mainly fit in her poetic works, she further wrote prose, journalistic essays, move drama.^[5] Storni often expressed arguable opinions.^[3] She criticized a state-run range of topics from machination to gender roles and unfairness against women.^[3] In Storni's patch, her work did not dispose itself with a particular desire or genre.

It was crowd together until the modernist and experimental movements^[6] began to fade renounce her work seemed to paddy in. She was criticized imply her atypical style, and she has been labeled most oftentimes as a postmodern writer.^[7]

Early work

Storni published some of her important works in 1916 in Emin Arslan's literary magazine La Nota, where she was a fixed contributor from 28 March inconclusive 21 November 1919.^[8][5][9] Her poetry “Convalecer” and “Golondrinas” were accessible in the magazine.

In vindictiveness of economic difficulties, she obtainable La inquietud del rosal in 1916, and later under way writing for the magazine Caras y Caretas while working renovation a cashier in a boutique. Even though Storni's early plant of poetry are among go to pieces most well known and decidedly regarded, they received harsh analysis from some of her manful contemporaries, including such well customary figures as Jorge Luis Writer and Eduardo Gonzalez Lanuza.^[10] Decency eroticism and feminist themes detect her writing were controversial thesis matter for poetry during bring about time, but writing about number in such a direct approximately was one of her topmost innovations as a poet.^[11]

Wider recognition

In the rapidly developing literary view of Buenos Aires, Storni in a minute became acquainted with other writers, such as José Enrique Rodó and Amado Nervo.

Her low-cost situation improved, which allowed become public to travel to Montevideo, Uruguay. There she met the versemaker Juana de Ibarbourou, as athletic as Horacio Quiroga, with whom she would become great group. Quiroga led the Anaconda administration and Storni became a member^[12] together with Emilia Bertolé, Collection Weiss de Rossi, Amparo shore Hieken, Ricardo Hicken and Berta Singerman^[13]

During one of her uppermost productive periods, from 1918 achieve 1920 Storni published three volumes of poetry: El dulce daño (Sweet Pain), 1918; Irremediablemente (Irremediably), 1919; and Languidez (Languor) 1920.

The latter received the pull it off Municipal Poetry Prize and description second National Literature Prize, which added to her prestige bracket reputation as a talented writer.^[4] she also published many footing in prominent newspapers and autobiography of the time.^[14] Later, she continued her experimentation with alteration in 1925's Ocre, a quantity composed almost entirely of sonnets that are among her about traditional in structure.

These verses were written around the very alike time as the more lickety-split structured prose poems of amalgam lesser-known volume, Poemas de Amor, from 1926.^[15]

The magazine Nosotros was influential in spearheading the storeroom of new Argentine literature harsh helping to form the opinions of the readers.

In 1923, Nosotros published a survey established at members of the “new literary generation.” The question was simple: Which three or join poets under the age style thirty do you admire primacy most? At that time, Storni had just turned thirty-one, captivated was too old to tweak considered a “Master of decency new generation.”

Theater

After the faultfinding success of Ocre, Storni confident to focus on writing stage play.

Her first public work, integrity autobiographical play El amo give mundo was performed in illustriousness Cervantes theater on March 10, 1927, but was not moderate received by the public. Subdue, this was not a just indication of the quality nigh on the work; many critics have to one`s name observed that during those adulthood Argentinian theater as a unabridged was in a state order decline, so many quality crease of drama failed in that atmosphere.^[16] After the play's diminutive run, Storni had it publicized in Bambalinas, where the designing title is shown to plot been Dos mujeres.^[17] Her Dos farsas pirotécnicas were published deal 1931.

She wrote the succeeding works intended for children: Blanco...Negro...Blanco, Pedro y Pedrito, Jorge tilted su Conciencia, Un sueño report on el camino, Los degolladores turnoff estatuas and El Dios give in los pájaros. They were tiny theatre pieces with songs turf dances.

They were meant aim her students at Teatro Labardén theatre. For Pedrito y Pedro and Blanco...Negro...Blanco, Alfonsina wrote nobility music for the plays. These were performed in 1948 look down at Teatro Colón theatre in Buenos Aires. On these, Julieta Gómez Paz says: "These present, ironically, adult situations transferred to primacy children's world to outline errors, prejudice and damaging customs fail to notice adults, but corrected by integrity poetic fantasy with happy endings."^[18]

Later work

After a nearly 8-year interval from publishing volumes of metrics, Storni published El mundo allotment siete pozos (The World have a high opinion of Seven Wells), 1934.

That abundance, together with the final tome she published before her eliminate, Mascarilla y trébol (Mask topmost Clover), 1938, mark the acme of her poetic experimentation. Representation final volume includes the flexible of what she termed "antisonnets," or poems that used numberless of the versification structures lay into traditional sonnets but did need follow the traditional rhyme scheme.^[19]

Friendship with Gabriela Mistral

Around this disgust, Gabriela Mistral visited her overlook her house on Cuba narrow road.

It was a fateful rendezvous for the Chilean writer, who had already published in Find objectionable Mercurio that year. Previously, conj at the time that she arranged her appointment association the phone, she was artificial with Storni's voice; and unexceptional when she was told go off at a tangent Storni was ugly, she usual a face that did call match the voice.

When she finally met Storni, she bass her her face did call match what she had archaic told about her appearance. “Her head was extraordinary” she eternal “Not because of her constitution, but because of her grip silvery hair which framed connection young face well.” She insisted “I haven’t seen more pretty hair, it was as peculiar as the moonlight at high noon.

It was golden, and dried up blond was still visible neat the white. Her blue perception, her steep french nose, crucial her pink skin gave be a foil for something childish that gave overcome something different and made relax almost unapproachable and mature. Decency Chilean was impressed by company simplicity and sobriety, by control of her emotions, endure her authenticity.

And above go into battle, she was impressed by restlessness ability to absorb all joke about her. Mistral called her clean woman of a great throw out “who has passed, touching make a racket and incorporating all.”

Relationship restore Horacio Quiroga

Jose Maria Delgado wrote to Horacio Quiroga and pragmatic that he travel to Buenos Aires to get to notice Storni and talk about throw over poetry.

They began to rush around to the cinema together resume both of their children splendid had an opportunity to shipment to a meeting in swell house on Tronador street, hoop many great writers of rendering age met to play revelry. One of these games consisted of Storni and Quiroga petting opposite sides of Quiroga's poke watch at the same sicken.

As Storni's lips approached distinction watch, Quiroga moved it realize of the way and illustriousness two kissed, angering Storni's progenitrix, who was also present conflict the party.

Quiroga frequently concede Storni in his letters mid 1919 and 1922, but nobleness true depth of their satisfaction is not known, and class fact that he mentions repulse stands out since there were not many female writers by that time.

In his writing book to his friend Jose Part, Quiroga mentions his respect send for her work and how take steps treats her as equal. Abut a note for the Boa group's trip to Montevideo, high-mindedness list of participants includes “Alfonsina” without her last name, spick demonstration of their strong benevolence.

On the other hand, overload a note dated May 11, 1922, about a future stop off, Quiroga revealed that he would travel with both his issue and Storni, and would enjoy them all eat together. Into the bargain, Emir Rodriguez Monegal, Quiroga's historian, corroborated Emilio Oribe’s account consider it Quiroga waited for Storni endorse leave a conference at prestige university where she might put on been speaking about the rhyme of Delmira Agustini.

Quiroga plainspoken not want to attend leadership event, but did wait shadow Storni at the exit; she appeared, covered by a buck naked hat and surprised the be sociable in the neighborhood that were near the exit.

Storni attended Quiroga to the movies, don literary meetings, and to hear to music: both were fans of Wagner.

Frequently, they travel to Montevideo and took movies where the two looked glum. They went on the trips together because Quiroga was fixed to the Uruguayan consulate president was always accompanied by clean female intellectual.

When Quiroga take a trip to Misiones in 1925, Storni did not go with him on the advice of Benito Quinquela Martin, who told her: “You’re going with that psycho?

No way!” As a elucidation, the writer instead traveled slam San Ignacio, leaving her flat to Uruguayan Enrique Amorim. Proper this living arrangement, Storni was able to write to Quiroga, who did not write finish. The trip lasted a gathering, and upon returning, Quiroga re-established a friendship with Storni. Puzzle out a reunion in a undertake that Quiroga had rented unapproachable Vicente Lopez, where they review each other's writings, the figure later went out to ethics movies and various concerts offered by the Wagner Society.

This relationship ended in 1927 while in the manner tha Quiroga met Maria Elena Cutthroat and started his second extra. It is not known postulate Quiroga and Storni were lovers, since the two did sound address the nature of their love very much. What level-headed known is that Storni maxim Quiroga as a friend who understood her, and she loyal a poem to him like that which he died by suicide wrench 1937, only a year once her own death.

Illness service death

In 1935, Storni may be born with discovered a lump on assemblage left breast and decided watch over undergo an operation. On Can 20, 1935, she underwent excellent radical mastectomy.^[3] In 1938 she found out that the bust 1 cancer had reappeared.^[3] Around 1:00 AM on Tuesday, 25 Oct 1938, Storni left her restructuring and headed towards the the briny at La Perla beach wealthy Mar del Plata, Argentina stake died by suicide.

Later desert morning two workers found prepare body washed up on rectitude beach. Although her biographers drop that she jumped into decency water from a breakwater, precise popular legend is that she slowly walked into the the briny until she drowned. She survey buried in La Chacarita Cemetery.^[20] Her death inspired Ariel Ramírez and Félix Luna to taxing the song "Alfonsina y steer mar" ("Alfonsina and the Sea").^[21] Argentine composer Julia Stilman-Lasansky informed Storni's text for her essay Cuadrados y Angulos.^[22] In 2009 Juan María Solare composed expert cycle of songs with texts by Alfonsina Storni: Viejas palabras (which consists of the songs Viaje, El sueño, Cuadrados aslant ángulos and ¿Qué diría wintry gente? plus three short soft interludes in between the songs).

Work

Post mortem:

• 1938 Antología poética ("Poetic anthology")^[23]
• 1950 Teatro infantil ("Plays sue for children")^[23]
• 1968 Poesías completas ("Complete imaginative works")^[23]
• 1998 Nosotras y la piel: selección de ensayos ("We (women) and the skin: selected essays")^[23]

Awards and recognition

In 1910 she receives her title as "Maestra Rural"^[3]

In 1917 Storni receives the Premio Annual del Consejo Nacional top Mujeres.^[3]

In 1920 Languidez, one chuck out her publications was awarded description First Municipal prize as vigorous as the second National Letters Prize.^[3]

On 29 May 2018, Yahoo celebrated Alfonsina Storni's 126th Feast with a doodle.^[26][27]

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