Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938)

She was an Argentine poet and writer linked to the modernist movement. He lived with his parents in San Juan. At the beginning of the 20th century, the family moved to the city of Rosario (Santa Fe province), where his mother founded a home school and his father installed a cafe near the Rosario Central railway station. Alfonsina worked as a waitress in the family business but since she did not like this job, she became independent and got a job as an actress. Later she would tour several provinces on a theatrical tour.Storni worked as a teacher in different educational centers and wrote her poetry and some plays during this period. His prose is feminist and, according to critics, has an originality that changed the meaning of Latin American letters. In his poetry he leaves eroticism aside and approaches the subject from a more abstract and reflective point of view. His compositions also reflect the disease he suffered for much of his life and show the waiting for the end of his life, expressing it through pain, fear and other demotivational feelings.

Storni had breast cancer, on which she underwent surgery and after a chirology study with an unsuccessful result, she fell into deep depression and surrendered to her illness.

She committed suicide in Mar del Plata by throwing herself off the breakwater of the Argentine Women's Club, and although there are romantic versions of the event that say that she went slowly into the sea until drowning, the event was what it was but it served as inspiration to compose the song «Alfonsina and the Sea ”, which recounts the event and suggests the reason for this tremendous ending. There are many and different versions of this song, among which the best known and melodic version stands out, performed by the great Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa. Storni rests and his remains are buried in the Chacarita cemetery in Buenos Aires.