Selected Writings of César Vallejo (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (910 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0819574848 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 679 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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John said Been a long time coming, glad it's here!. At long last, more Vallejo in English. Thanks!. "Typos and unmet expectations" according to Rachel. César Vallejo is most certainly one of Latin America's star authors of the 20th century, however, it is too bad that the translation of his writings into English does not do him the justice that he deserves; it is to say, at the very least, disappointing. There are also multiple typos and omissions throughout the book, which distract from the readings -- I hope that future editions and works of translatio
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. 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. 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.. 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. Comp
“With his ferocious radicalism and bridge-burning experimentalism, Peruvian César Vallejo played avant-garde to the avant-garde. This book will change the rules of the Vallejo game forever.”—Gustavo Faverón Patriau. This wonderful selection of his poems, letters, essays, plats, and journalistic writings, with erudite and thoughtful commentary by Joseph Mulligan, gives us a brilliant and inviting open door to access the inner workings of the convulsive, dark, agonistic, and magically creative mind of one of the most radical renovators of twentieth-century literature