Trilce - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8475058744 ISBN 13: 9788475058740

Cesar Vallejo was born in Santiago de Chuco, Peru, in 1892. He studied law and literature in Trujillo and in 1917 moved to Lima. 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. From Paris, he traveled to Russia and to Spain, during the Spanish Civil War. He died in Paris, in absolute poverty, devastated by the fall of the Spanish Republic, in 1938. Besides novels, short stories, dramas, and several journalistic and political collections, Vallejo left five books of poetry. Of these only Los heralds negros (The Black Heralds, 1918) and Trilce (1922) were published during his lifetime. Nomina de huesos (Payroll of Bones, 1923-1936), Sermon de la barbarie (Sermon on Barbarism, 1936-1938) and Espana, aparta de mi este caliz (Spain, Take This Cup from Me, 1937-1938), were published posthumously.

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Review

Voice Literary Supplement"

Times Literary Supplement"

The New Republic"

Publishers Weekly"

-Blake's Milton, Pope's Homer: for the poet the possessive is neither descriptive nor evaluative, but copulative, possessive. Clayton Eshleman earns his apostrophe.- --Voice Literary Supplement

-[Eshleman's] versions are hard-earned and thoroughly tested . . . Struggling to read [Vallejo] in both Spanish and English is an invitation to learn [his] strange and disturbingly intimate idiolect. Clayton Eshleman's translation is an excellent point of departure.---Times Literary Supplement

-When Vallejo disarticulates Spanish he does so not out of complacency with his own strangeness, but because he has certain moral and aesthetic truths to express and must utter them in an idion of his own making . . . Vallejo's deepest political impact lies here, in his re-creation of linguistic, and therefore social, order . . . Trilce abounds in neologisms, and Eshleman ushers a number of funky new verbs into English.---The New Republic

-This is a poet's translation: rhythmical, with words often chosen for their sounds as well as their meanings . . . [It] also presents 'a newly established Spanish text, ' and is destined to become a classic.---Publishers Weekly

"Blake's Milton, Pope's Homer: for the poet the possessive is neither descriptive nor evaluative, but copulative, possessive. Clayton Eshleman earns his apostrophe." --Voice Literary Supplement

"[Eshleman's] versions are hard-earned and thoroughly tested . . . Struggling to read [Vallejo] in both Spanish and English is an invitation to learn [his] strange and disturbingly intimate idiolect. Clayton Eshleman's translation is an excellent point of departure."--Times Literary Supplement

About the Author

Cesar Vallejo was born in 1892 in the small town of Santiago de Chuco in northern Peru. He was able to attend Trujillo University and the University of San Marcos in Lima, although his parents were poor. In 1920 he was arrested while in his home town and accused of being involved in some political disturbances. Although he appears to have been innocent, he was imprisoned for several months and many of the poems in 'Trilce', his second book (1922), refer to this period, which was to have a decisive impact upon both his life and his poetry. In 1923 Vallejo went to Paris and in 1928 and 1929 he made two short trips to the USSR, which were to have a profound effect upon him. In the 1930s he became a militant communist, and was expelled from France, whereupon he moved to Spain. In 1933 he returned to Paris but again left for Spain at the outbreak of the Civil War, first to visit Republican territory and later to attend the International Writers' Congress. He died in 1938. His poetry written after "Trilce" only appeared in book form after his death. Vallejo is regarded as the most important poet of Peru, one of the great figures of Latin American literature, and one of the titans of the pre-war international avant-garde.

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