Vallejo, Cesar

Berkeley. 1978. University Of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Worn Dustjacket With Chipping & Numerous Tears. 0520036484. Translated from the Spanish by Clayton Eshleman & Jose Rubia Barcia. 339 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Bob Cato. keywords: Poetry Literature Latin America Peru Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The Peruvian poet CEsar Vallejo in 1922 published his second important hook of poems, Trilce after Los Heraldos Negros (1919). To anyone who had read Latin American poetry written before Truce, it seemed a strange book indeed, and the literary critics recognized in Vallejo a major talent. When Vallejo got into trouble with Peruvian authorities he emigrated to France and never returned. While in Paris he lived often on the verge of starvation, but managed to make contact with artists and writers, such as Juan Gris, Vicente Huidobro, and Juan Larrea. He maintained himself by writing dispatches for the Lima weekly Mundial, and later he was a weekly columnist for Variedades also published in Lima. Between 1923 and 1938, the year of his death, Vallejo produced 110 poems which have come to be recognized as one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century. Only recently has an accurate text of these posthumous published poems been available. Larrea and other Peruvian scholars have been consulted by the translators of this volume regarding Vallejo's intentional misspellings, neologisms and Peruvianisms, and they have taken each into consideration, seeking equivalent words and phrases in English. The typescript for this book was based on Vallejo's worksheets. From the worksheets Clayton Eshleman and JosE Rubia Barcia have created not only this translation but a faithful Spanish text. Besides a long introduction containing new information on Vallejos years in Europe when all of these poems were written, Eshleman and Barcia have included a section of notes and comments concerning their choices and interpretation of the many difficult words. inventory #15534 ISBN: 0520036484.