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Alfonsina Storni (May 29, 1892 – October 25, 1938) was one of the most important Argentine and Latin-American poets of the modernist period. ==Life== Storni was born in Sala Capriasca, Switzerland, to Italian-Swiss parents. Before her birth, her father had started a brewery in the city of San Juan, Argentina, producing beer and soda. In 1891, following the advice of a doctor, he returned with his wife to Switzerland, where Alfonsina was born the following year and lived until she was four years old. In 1896 the family returned to San Juan, and a few years later, in 1901, moved to Rosario. There her father opened a tavern, where Storni worked at a variety of chores. In 1907, she joined a traveling theatre company which took her around the country. With them she performed in Henrik Ibsen's ''Spectres,'' Benito Pérez Galdós's ''La loca de la casa,'' and Florencio Sánchez's ''Los muertos''. In 1908, Storni returned to live with her mother, who had remarried and was living in Bustinza. After a year there, Storni went to Coronda, where she undertook studies that would lead to employment as a rural primary schoolteacher. During this period she also started working for the local magazines ''Mundo Rosarino'' and ''Monos y Monadas'', as well as the prestigious ''Mundo Argentino''. In 1912 she moved to Buenos Aires, seeking the anonymity afforded by a big city. The following year her son Alejandro was born, the illegitimate child of a journalist in Coronda. Sustaining herself with teaching and newspaper journalism, she lived in Buenos Aires where the social and economical difficulties faced by Argentina's growing middle classes were inspiring an emerging body of women's rights activists. In spite of economic difficulties, she published ''La inquietud del rosal '' in 1916, and later started writing for the magazine ''Caras y Caretas'' while working as a cashier in a shop. Storni soon became acquainted with other writers, such as José Enrique Rodó and Amado Nervo, and established friendships with José Ingenieros and Manuel Ugarte. Her economic situation improved, which allowed her to travel to Montevideo, Uruguay. There she met the poet Juana de Ibarbourou, as well as Horacio Quiroga, with whom she would become great friends. Her 1920 book ''Languidez'' received the first Municipal Poetry Prize and the second National Literature Prize. She taught literature at the ''Escuela Normal de Lenguas Vivas'', and she published ''Ocre''. Her style now showed more realism than before, and a strongly feminist theme. Solitude and marginality began to affect her health, and worsening emotional problems forced her to leave her job as teacher. Trips to Europe changed her writing by helping her to lose her former models, and reach a more dramatic lyricism, loaded with an erotic vehemence unknown in those days, and new feminist thoughts in ''Mundo de siete pozos'' (1934) and ''Mascarilla y trébol'' (1938). A year and a half after her friend Quiroga committed suicide in 1937, and haunted by solitude and breast cancer, Storni sent her last poem, ''Voy a dormir'' ("I'm going to sleep") to La Nación newspaper in October 1938. Around 1:00 AM on Tuesday the 25th, Alfonsina left her room and headed towards the sea at ''La Perla'' beach in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Later that morning two workers found her body washed up on the beach. Although her biographers hold that she jumped into the water from a breakwater, popular legend is that she slowly walked out to sea until she drowned.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alfonsina Storni )〕 Her death inspired Ariel Ramírez and Félix Luna to compose the song ''Alfonsina y el Mar'' ("Alfonsina and the Sea"), which has been performed by Mercedes Sosa, Tania Libertad, Danny Rivera, Nana Mouskouri, Mocedades, Shakira, Andrés Calamaro, Katia Cardenal, Avishai Cohen, Ane Brun, and many others. Also, fifty years after her death, she inspired the Latin American artist Aquino to incorporate her image into many of his paintings. Storni once referred to men as ''el enemigo,'' "the enemy." Much of Storni's work focuses on what she sees as the repression of women by men. This often takes the form of personal insults directed at men in general. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alfonsina Storni」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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