In this Book
- Selected Writings of César Vallejo
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry Program
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.
Publication of this book is funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xvi
- Introduction
- pp. xvii-lxxii
- Note on This Edition
- pp. lxxiii-lxxvi
- List of Translators
- pp. lxxvii-lxxviii
- Book One: 1915–1919
- From The Black Heralds
- pp. 16-32
- Articles and Chronicles
- pp. 33-37
- Book Two: 1920–1923
- From Trilce
- pp. 47-73
- From Scales
- pp. 74-101
- From Savage Lore
- pp. 102-112
- Articles and Chronicles
- pp. 121-126
- Book Three: 1924–1928
- Articles and Chronicles
- pp. 129-195
- From Art and Revolution
- pp. 196-212
- From Against Professional Secrets
- pp. 213-228
- From Toward the Reign of the Sciris
- pp. 229-244
- From Moscow vs. Moscow
- pp. 245-263
- From The River Flows between Two Shores
- pp. 264-293
- Book Four: 1929–1935
- From Human Poems
- pp. 317-332
- From Reflections at the Foot of the Kremlin
- pp. 333-359
- From Russia Facing the Second Five-Year Plan
- pp. 360-366
- Articles and Chronicles
- pp. 367-397
- From Tungsten
- pp. 398-425
- Paco Yunque
- pp. 426-438
- From Brothers Colacho
- pp. 439-467
- Book Five: 1936–1938
- Articles and Chronicles
- pp. 485-500
- From Human Poems
- pp. 501-522
- From Spain, Take This Cup from Me
- pp. 523-533
- From The Tired Stone
- pp. 534-559
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 591-596
- About the Author
- p. 602