Selected Writings of César Vallejo 9780819574848, 9780819575258, 0819574848
For the first time in English, readers can now evaluate the extraordinary breadth of Cesar Vallejo's diverse oeuvre
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Table of contents :
Book One: 1915-1919. From Romanticism in Castilian Poetry --
From The Black Heralds. The Black Heralds --
The Spider --
The Poet to his Lover --
Dregs --
The Black Cup --
Imperial Nostalgias I-IV --
Ebony Leaves --
Autochthonous Tercet --
Huaco --
Dead Idyll --
Agape --
The Voice in the Mirror --
Our Bread --
The Miserable Supper --
The Eternal Dice --
Distant Footsteps --
To My Brother Miguel --
Januneid --
Epexegesis. --
Articles and Chronicles. With Manuel González Prada --
With José María Eguren --
Abraham Valdelomar Has Died. --
Letters. To Óscar Imaña, January 29, 1918 --
To Óscar Imaña, August 2 1918 --
To Manuel Natividad Vallejo, December 2, 1918 --
Dedication in a copy of The Black Heralds to friends in Trujillo, July 1919. Book Two: 1920-1923. From Trilce. I. Who's making all that racket --
II. Time time --
IV. Two carts grind our eardrums down --
VI. The suite that tomorrow I wore --
IX. I sdrive to dddeflect at a blow the blow --
X. Primary and final stone of groundless --
XIII. I think about your sex --
XVII. This 2 distills in a single batch --
XVIII. Oh the four walls of the cell --
XX. Flush with the beaten froth bulwarked --
XXIII. Estuous oven of those my sweet rolls --
XXV. Chess bishops upthrust to stick --
XXVIII. I've had lunch alone now --
XXX. Burn of the second --
XXXI. Hope between cotton bawls --
XXXVI. We struggle to thread ourselves through a needle's eye --
XXXVIII. This crystal waits to be sipped --
XLII. Wait, all of you. Now I'm going to tell you --
XLIV. This piano journeys within --
XLV. I lose contact with the sea --
XLIX. Murmured in restlessness, I cross --
L. Cerberus four times --
LII. And we'll get up when we feel --
LV. Samain would say --
LVI. Everyday I wake blindly --
LVII. The highest points craterized --
LVIII. In the cell, in what's solid --
LXI. Tonight I get down from my horse --
LXIII. Dawn cracks raining --
LXV. Mother, tomorrow I am going to Santiago --
LXVIII. We're at the Fourteenth of July --
LXX. Everyone smiles at the nonchalance --
LXXI. Coils the sun does in your cool hand --
LXXIII. Another ay has triumphed --
LXXV. You're all dead --
LXXVII. It hails so hard, as if to remind me. --
From Scales. Northwestern Wall --
Antarctic Wall --
East Wall --
Doublewide Wall --
Window Sill --
Beyond Life and Death --
Liberation --
Wax. --
From Savage Lore. Chapter 1 --
Chapter 2 --
Chapter 3. --
Letters. To La Reforma, August 12, 1920 --
To Óscar Imaña, October 26, 1920 --
To Gastón Roger, December 1920 --
To Óscar Imaña, February 12, 1921 --
To Antenor Orrego, 1922 --
To Óscar Imaña, July 1, 1922 --
To Manuel Natividad Vallejo, June 16, 1923 --
To Dr. Carlos C. Godoy, June 16, 1923 --
To Víctor Clemente Vallejo, July 14, 1923 --
To Carlos Raygada, September 15, 1923. --
Articles and Chronicles. The Blue Bird --
La Rotonde --
Cooperation. Book Three: 1924-1928. Articles and Chronicles. Spain at the International Exhibit in Paris --
Modern Man --
Between France and Spain --
The Need to Die --
The History of America --
The Assassin of Barrés --
The Poet and the Politician --
State of Spanish Literature --
Da Vinci's Baptist --
In Defense of Life --
A Great Scientific Discovery --
Latest Scientific Discoveries --
The Idols of Contemporary Life --
Avant-garde Religions --
Against Professional Secrets --
The New Disciplines --
Life as a Match --
Artists Facing Politics --
Contribution to Film Studies --
Madness in Art --
The Passion of Charles Chaplin --
Invitation to Clarity --
Proletarian Literature --
Colonial Societies --
Psychology of the Diamond Specialists --
Literature Behind Closed Doors --
Vanguard and Rearguard --
Anniversary of Baudelaire --
The Masters of Cubism --
Tolstoy and the New Russia. --
From Art and Revolution. --
Revolutionary Function of Thought --
The Work of Art and the Social Sphere --
Aesthetic and Machinism --
Universality of Verse for the Unity of Languages --
Poetry and Imposture --
Grammatical Rule --
My Self-Portrait in the Light of Historical Materialism --
Tell me How you Write and I'll tell you What you Write --
Autopsy of Surrealism --
New Poetry --
The Image and its Syrtes --
The Mayakovsky Case --
Regarding Artistic Freedom. --
From Against Professional Secrets. From Feuerbach to Marx --
Explanation of History --
The Death of Death --
The Motion Inherent in Matter --
Individual and Society --
Negations of Negations --
Reputation Theory --
Noise of a Great Criminal's Footsteps --
Conflict between the Eyes and the Gaze --
Languidly His Liqueur --
Vocation of Death. --
From Toward the Reign of the Sciris. 1. The Other Imperialism --
2. The Seer --
3. The Peace of Túpac Yupanqui --
4. An Accident on the Job --
5. Byzantium, West Longitude. --
From Moscow vs. Moscow. The Final Judgment --
Death. --
From The River Flows between Two Shores. Act I, Scene 1 --
Act I, Scene II --
Act I, Scene III. --
Letters. To Pablo Abril de Vivero, May 14, 1924 --
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, May 26, 1924 --
To Alcides Spelucín, July 1924 --
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, October 19, 1924 --
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, November 5, 1924 --
To Juan Larrea, March 12, 1926 --
To Ricardo Vegas García, May 15, 1926 --
To Juan Larrea, July 26, 1926 --
To Alcides Spelucín, September 14, 1926 --
To José Carlos Mariátegui, December 10, 1926 --
To Emilio Armaza, December 10, 1926 --
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, July 24, 1927 --
To Luis Alberto Sánchez, August 18, 1927 --
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, September 12, 1927 --
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, October 19, 1927 --
To Rafael Méndez Dorich, February 17, 1928 --
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, March 17, 1928 --
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, April 26, 1928 --
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, October 19, 1928 --
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, December 27, 1928. --
Notebooks. Entries from 1926-1928.
