TRILCE

VALLEJO, Cesar. Clayton Eshelman

ISBN 10: 0941419517 / ISBN 13: 9780941419512

Published by Marsilio Publishers ( 1992 ), New York, 1992

About this Item

Octavo; xxciii, 276 pages, remainder mark on bottom, rear lower corner bumped Signed on the title-page by Clayton Eshelman, who translated it from the Spanish. " Cesar Vallejo is the greatest catholic poet since Dante - by catholic I mean universal." - Thomas Merton. "Trilce" was published in the same year as "The Waste Land", and is, like the Eliot poem, a masterpiece of early modernism. which has had an indelible effect upon all subsequent poetry in its language. A bi-lingual text. "Vallejo left enough work to make it clear that he is probably the century's greatest poet in any language." - Martin Seymour-Smith.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: TRILCE
• Publisher: Marsilio Publishers ( 1992 ), New York
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0941419517
• ISBN 13: 9780941419512
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition Thus.
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • poetry in translation
  • cesar vallejo
  • spanish poetry
  • poetry
  • thomas merton

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Synopsis

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.

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"