Complete Later Poems, 1923-1938

Complete Later Poems, 1923-1938
Author: César Vallejo
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2005
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

César Vallejo is one the greatest Spanish-language poets of the 20th century, his monument being the book-length sequence 'Trilce' (a translation of which is published simultaneously with this volume). After the publication of 'Trilce' he published numerous essays and a didactic novel, but did not collect any of his subsequent poems for book publication. Since his death, these poems have usually been referred to as the Posthumous Poems or, collectively, as the 'Poemas humanos' after the title of one of the posthumous collections. This volume brings together all of the post-'Trilce' work that has been identified by the latest scholarship and included in the most recent Peruvian edition of the author's works. The Spanish texts have benefitted from a number of corrections, as compared to previous publications, and the poems are presented chronologically - in so as far as the chronology can be ascertained. The book offers the most complete version yet of this magnificent body of work. The translations are by the award-winning Irish poet-translator, Michael Smith, and the Peruvian scholar Valentino Gianuzzi.

Poemas Humanos

Poemas Humanos
Author: Cesar Vallejo
Publisher: Red Ediciones S L
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2011-08-31
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9788499535654

César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza (Santiago de Chuco, 1892-1938, París). Perú. Sus padres eran Francisco de Paula Vallejo Benítez y María de los Santos Mendoza Gurrionero. Fue el menor de once hermanos. Su tez mestiza se debe que sus abuelas fueron indias y sus abuelos sacerdotes gallegos. Sus padres querían dedicarlo al sacerdocio, lo que él en su primera infancia aceptó. Vallejo estudió en el Centro Escolar No. 271 de Santiago de Chuco, y desde abril de 1905 hasta 1909 hizo la secundaria en el Colegio Nacional San Nicolás de Huamachuco. En 1910 se matriculó en la Facultad de Letras de la Universidad Nacional de Trujillo y en 1911 viajó a Lima para estudiar en la Escuela de Medicina de San Fernando. Tras varios trabajos, Vallejo terminó en 1915 la carrera de Letras. En 1916 frecuentó la juventud intelectual de la «bohemia trujillana» y se enamoró de María Rosa Sandoval. En 1917 conoció a «Mirto» (Zoila Rosa Cuadra), pero el romance duró poco y al parecer César intentó suicidarse tras un desengaño. Poco después se embarcó en el vapor Ucayali con rumbo a Lima donde conoció a lo más selecto de la intelectualidad limeña. Llegó a entrevistarse con José María Eguren y con Manuel González Prada, a quien los jóvenes consideraban un maestro y guía. Asimismo, publicó algunos de sus poemas en la Revista Suramérica. En 1918 trabajó en el colegio Barros y tras la muere de su director, Vallejo se hizo cargo de la dirección del mismo. Luego, en 1919 fue profesor en el Colegio Guadalupe. Ese año ven la luz los poemas de Los Heraldos Negros, que muestran cierta influencia modernista. Su madre murió en 1918 y al volver a Santiago de Chuco Vallejo fue encarcelado durante 105 días, acusado de haber participado en el saqueo de una casa. En la cárcel escribió la mayoría de los poemas de Trilce y en 1921 recibió la libertad condicional. Entonces fue admitido otra vez en el Colegio Guadalupe. Con el dinero que le debía el Ministerio de Educación se marchó a Europa en el vapor Oroya el 17 de junio de 1923 y llegó a París el 13 de julio. En París hizo amistad con Juan Larrea y Vicente Huidobro;y tuvo contacto con Pablo Neruda y Tristán Tzara. En 1926 conoció a Henriette Maisse, con quien convivió hasta octubre de 1928. Fundó junto al poeta español Juan Larrea una revista mientras colaboraba con Variedades y Amauta, la revista de José Carlos Mariátegui. Por entonces profundizó en sus estudios de marxismo. En 1927 conoció a Georgette Marie Philippart Travers y ese año viajó a Rusia. Hacia 1929 mantiene sus colaboraciones con Variedades, Mundial y el diario El Comercio. En 1930 el gobierno español le concedió una modesta beca para escritores. Poco después viajó a la Unión Soviética para participar en el Congreso Internacional de Escritores Solidarios con el régimen soviético. Tras su regreso a París se casó con Georgette Philippart en 1934 y se integró en el Partido Comunista del Perú fundado por Mariátegui. En 1937 Vallejo y Neruda fundaron en España el Grupo Hispanoamericano de Ayuda a España en plena Guerra Civil. En 1938 trabajó como profesor de Lengua y Literatura, pero en marzo sufrió un agotamiento físico. El 24 de marzo fue internado padeciendo una enfermedad desconocida y murió en París el 15 de abril de 1938.

César Vallejo

César Vallejo
Author: Stephen M. Hart
Publisher: Tamesis Books
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2013
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1855662531

This is the first biography of Latin America's most important poet. the Peruvian César Vallejo. It traces the important events of his life and evaluates his poetry, fiction, theatre, political essays and journalism. This is the first biography of Latin America's most important poet, the Peruvian César Vallejo, who was born in an Andean village, Santiago de Chuco, on 16 March 1892 and died in Paris on 15 April 1938. It traces the important events of his life - becoming a poet in Peru, falling in love with Mirtho in Trujillo, writing Trilce which would transform for ever the avant-garde in the Spanish-speaking world, fleeing to Paris in the summer of 1923 afterbeing accused of burning down Carlos Santa María's house in Santiago de Chuco, falling in love with Georgette Philippart and then with communism, writing his Poemas humanos (Human Poems) and then, shortly before hisdeath, writing his moving poems inspired by the Spanish Civil War, España, aparta de mí este cáliz (Spain, Take this Chalice from Me). This book also provides an objective evaluation of Vallejo's poetry, fiction, theatre, political essays and journalism. Stephen M. Hart is Professor of Latin American Film, Literature and Culture, School of European Languages, Culture and Society, University College London.

Selected Writings of César Vallejo

Selected Writings of César Vallejo
Author: César Vallejo
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 681
Release: 2015-05-28
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0819575259

Essential writings from the catalyst of the Latin American experimental tradition For the first time in English, readers can now evaluate the extraordinary breadth of César Vallejo's diverse oeuvre that, in addition to poetry, includes magazine and newspaper articles, chronicles, political reports, fictions, plays, letters, and notebooks. Edited by the translator Joseph Mulligan, Selected Writings follows Vallejo down his many winding roads, from Santiago de Chuco in highland Peru, to the coastal cities of Trujillo and Lima, on to Paris, Madrid, Moscow, and Leningrad. This repeated border-crossing also plays out on the textual level, as Vallejo wrote prolifically across genres and, in many cases, created poetic space in extra-literary modes. Informed by a vast body of scholarly research, this compendium synthesizes a restored literary corpus and—in bold translations that embrace the idiosyncratic spirit of the author's writing—puts forth a new representation of this essential figure of twentieth-century Latin American literature as an indispensable alternative to the European avant-garde. Compiling well known versions with over eighty percent of the text presented in English translation for the first time, Selected Writings is both a trove of and tribute to Vallejo's multifaceted work. Includes translations by the editor and Clayton Eshleman, Pierre Joris, Suzanne Jill Levine, Nicole Peyrafitte, Michael Lee Rattigan, William Rowe, Eliot Weinberger, and Jason Weiss.

The Complete Poetry

The Complete Poetry
Author: César Vallejo
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 731
Release: 2007-01-08
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0520932145

This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian César Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely presented in facing-page Spanish and English, this volume, translated by National Book Award winner Clayton Eshleman, includes the groundbreaking collections The Black Heralds (1918), Trilce (1922), Human Poems (1939), and Spain, Take This Cup from Me (1939). Vallejo's poetry takes the Spanish language to an unprecedented level of emotional rawness and stretches its grammatical possibilities. Striking against theology with the very rhetoric of the Christian faith, Vallejo's is a tragic vision—perhaps the only one in the canon of Spanish-language literature—in which salvation and sin are one and the same. This edition includes notes on the translation and a fascinating translation memoir that traces Eshleman's long relationship with Vallejo's poetry. An introduction and chronology provide further insights into Vallejo's life and work.

The Poetic and Real Worlds of César Vallejo (1892-1938)

The Poetic and Real Worlds of César Vallejo (1892-1938)
Author: R. K. Britton
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2015-09-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1782842144

The world-renowned Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892-1938) was also a journalist, essayist, novelist and would-be dramatist. The study of his life and work has encountered problems since the 1950s, stemming from the fact that half of his writing was published posthumously under editorship of doubtful accuracy. The matter is further complicated in that his non-poetic work has been neglected in favour of his verse. A Struggle between Art and Politics reviews the evidence -- literary and historical -- now reliably to hand, and assesses the often conflicting body of opinion his work has generated. Three essential questions are pertinent: Where should Vallejo be placed in the canon of twentieth-century modernism? What effect did his mid-life conversion to Communism have on his writing? How should his prose fiction, journalism and essays be assessed in relation to his poetry? There are few writers whose literary output follows the twists and turns of their lives more closely than César Vallejo's. This new, comparative study maps his career onto the cultural, social, political and historical backdrop to his life in Peru, France, Spain and Russia, and analyses his writings in the light of his life circumstances. Vallejo's journey from Peru, the cultural "periphery", to the "centre" of inter-war Paris, his experience of European capitalism during the Depression, and the confrontation of Communism and Fascism, ultimately played out in the Spanish Civil War, forced him to wage a personal struggle to reconcile art with life and politics. This challenge is fought out in different ways in his various writings, but nowhere more movingly, passionately and humanely than in his posthumous poetry.

The Complete Posthumous Poetry

The Complete Posthumous Poetry
Author: César Vallejo
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1980-09-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0520040996

The Translation judges for the National Book Awards--Richard Miller, Alastair Reid, Eliot Weinberger--cited Clayton Eshleman and Jose Rubia Barcia's translation of Cesar Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry as follows: "This, the first National Book Award to be given to a translation of modern poetry, is a recognition of Clayton Eshleman's seventeen-year apprenticeship to perhaps the most difficult poetry in the Spanish language. Eshleman and his present collaborator, Jose Rubia Barcia, have not only rendered these complex poems into brilliant and living English, but have also established a definitive Spanish test based on Vallejo's densely rewritten manuscripts. In recreating this modern master in English, they have also made a considerable addition to poetry in our language."