César Vallejo

César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza (born 16 March 1892 in Santiago de Chuco, Peru, † April 15, 1938 in Paris, France) was a Peruvian poet and writer.

Life

César Vallejo was born the youngest of eleven children of a Mestizenfamilie in Santiago de Chuco, a village in the Peruvian Andes. He started with 13 years to write the first poems, then studied literature at the Universidad de la Libertad in Trujillo and earned alongside his living as a private tutor and cashier on a sugar farm. Here he learned the exploitation of farm workers know what should influence him greatly in his later literary and political work. In 1915, he earned a master's degree in Spanish literature with a thesis on the Spanish romance.

After studying Vallejo lived in Lima, where he met key representatives of the intellectual left. He gave private lessons and eventually got a job as a teacher. He lost that job after he refused to marry his pregnant mistress; these died after he initiated abortion. During this time, around 1918, he wrote his first work, the 72 poems containing band Los Heraldos negros. In 1921, he came on a visit to his home town in an armed rebellion, was held to be wrong for one of the perpetrators, and spent four months in prison. This prison stay he worked in his stories Escala Melografiadas of 1923.

After the release of Trilce 1922 César Vallejo lost another teaching job and emigrated in 1923 to Europe. Here he settled in Paris. In the aftermath communist influences rose on his work, in 1928 he traveled in addition to Moscow to meet socialism in this country. He became in 1931 a member of the Congressional Anti-Fascist writers and in 1937, along with Pablo Neruda in Paris, the Latin American Committee for the support of the Spanish Republic. After his death in 1938 he was buried in the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris.

In Lima today bears a private university his name.

Working

Poetry

Although during his lifetime only three of his books were published, César Vallejo is still considered one of the great poetic innovators of the Spanish language of the 20th century. Always one step ahead of the times the literary currents, each of his books was stylistically different from the other and in their own sense revolutionary.

• Los Heraldos negros (1919), " The black messenger "; ger of Curt Meyer- Clason, Aachen, 2000. ISBN 3-89086-794-4
• Trilce (1922 ); ger of Curt Meyer- Clason, Aachen, 1998 ISBN. 3-89086-865-7
• España, aparta de mí este Cáliz (1937 ), "Spain, take this cup from me "; ger of Curt Meyer- Clason, Aachen, 1998. ISBN 3-89086-863-0
• Poemas humanos (1939 ), " Human Poems "; ger of Curt Meyer- Clason, Aachen, 1998. ISBN 3-89086-864-9
• Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition, University of California Press ( Paperback ), 2009, ISBN 0-520-26173-9

Plays

Vallejo wrote five plays, none of which has been listed or published during his lifetime.

• Mampar ( manuscript probably destroyed by the author )
• Lock-Out (1930 ) in French
• Entre las dos Orillas corre el río ( 30s )
• Colacho hermanos o Presidente de América (1934 ), Satire
• La piedra cansada (1937 )

Edition: Teatro completo, Lima, Fondo Editorial Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 1979

Novel

• El Tungsteno (1931 )

Prose

• Novelas y cuentos completos. Lima, Francisco Moncloa Editores, 1967

Essays

• Autopsy on surrealism, Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1982
• Ensayos y completos wagers, Lima: Pontificia Univ. Católica del Perú: 2002: CIX, 638 S.: Ill.