THE BLOOD COUNTESS
The bloody legend of Elizabeth Bathory in breathtaking illustration!
The Acid Publications with great pride deliver to the Greek readership the important work of the Argentinian poetess Alejandra Pizarnik, "The Blood Countess", first published in 1966, here with the – crimson, white and black – illustration by the visual artist Santiago Caruso.
An imposing 16th-century countess spends her days locked away in her remote castle with her faithful maids, at the northern tip of Hungary, on the imaginary border between East and West.
It could be a standard gothic story, except the Countess has one thing in particular: the only thing she really enjoys is orchestrating the sadistic abuse, torture and killing of young girls…
"Santiago Caruso resembles William Blake in style, with notable influence from 19th century symbolism and paintingu century. His brush opens the external reality like a scalpel and reaches the bowels of the truth."
– El Cultural Primigenio
Author Biography:
Alejandra Pisarnik (1936-1972), perhaps the leading Argentine poet of the second half of the 20th century, was born on the outskirts of Buenos Aires to parents of Jewish descent, immigrants from Eastern Europe. She published her first poetry collection, La tierra más ajena, in 1955. Her poetry, introspective and at the same time revelatory, has been characterized as one of the most original forms of expression in Latin American literature. Pisarnik lived for four years (1960-1964) in Paris, publishing her poems, reviews and translations of works by Antonin Artaud, Marguerite Duras, Henri Missot and other French-speaking authors, and maintaining friendly relations with figures of Latin American letters such as Octavio Paz and Julio Cortazar. She then returned to Buenos Aires where she published her best-known poetry collections, Los trabajos y las noches (1965), Extraction de la Piedra de locura (1968) and El hell musical (1971). She committed suicide with barbiturate pills on September 25, 1972, on her way out of the psychiatric clinic where she was being treated.