The poetic and real worlds of César Vallejo
Subtitle: a struggle between art and politics (1892-1938)
By: R.K. Britton
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9781845197421
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: The world-renowned Peruvian poet Cesar 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 Cesar Vallejos.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: An approach to Vallejo : beating the undergrowth, charting a course; title: From childhood to maturity : change and reaction in Peru; title: Breaking with the past : Los heraldos negros; title: Trilce : revolt fully-fledged; title: Peruvian postscript : experimenting with prose fiction; title: The poet in exile I (1923-27) : Paris, Georgette and communism; title: The poet in exile II (1928-1932) : the artist, the Soviet revolution and a Spanish interlude; title: Paris in the Depression (1932-1936) : the would-be playwright and a series of failed attempts; title: Crescendo : the Spanish Civil War and last writings; title: The posthumous poems : a vision of humanity; title: Epilogue and conclusions.