Elena Martín Vivaldi or the loneliness of Words

Elena Martín Vivaldi (Granada, 1907–1998) actively participates, after the publication of her first book Escalera de luna (1945), in cultural gatherings in Granada, becoming a reference figure, esteemed and appreciated by local intellectuals. She is the autor o fan extensive poetic production, which amazes for its intensity, neatness, lyrical sparkle and pictorical capacity, and which covers trascendental topics suc as the search for identity and te deceit of love (El alma desvelada, 1953), loneliness (Cumplida soledad, 1958; Arco en desenlace, 1963; Nocturnos, 1981), the passage of time (Durante este tempo, 1972), frustrated motherhood and the creation of the word (Materia de esperanza, 1968). This study aims to provide an approximation to the life and work of Elena Martín Vivaldi, facilitating the interpretative keys of her poetic discourse and placing special emphasis on the leitmotif that supports it: loneliness.