Trilce / César Vallejo ; translated by Clayton Eshleman ; Spanish text established by Julio Ortega ; introduction by Américo Ferrari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vallejo, César, 1892-1938.

Contributor:

Eshleman, Clayton.

Ortega, Julio, 1942-

Standardized Title:

Trilce. English & Spanish

Language:

English

Spanish

Physical Description:

xxviii, 276 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Weselyan University Press paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Hanover : University Press of New England [for] Weselyan University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

Text in English and Spanish.

Summary:

Cesar Vallejo was born in Peru in 1892. In 1921 he spent three months in prison, where he wrote some of the poems in Trilce. In 1923 he left for Paris, where he co-founded a cell of the Peruvian Communist Party. He traveled to Russia, then to Spain during the Spanish Civil War, and died in Paris in 1938, in absolute poverty, devastated by the fall of the Spanish Republic. Published the same year as Eliot's Waste Land, Trilce is also a masterpiece of early modernism, a ground-breaking work that has had an indelible effect on all subsequent poetry in its language. The volume of 77 poems is considered to be Vallejo's most complex and radical work.

Contents:

Trilce 1

Afterword: Vallejo's Succulent Snack of Unity 235

Cesar Vallejo: A Chronology 261

A Trilce Bibliography 273.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Marsilio Pub., 1992.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-276).

ISBN:

0819564214

OCLC:

44454585