Trilce (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Cesar Vallejo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9500307510 ISBN 13: 9789500307512

Publisher: Losada, 2007

Synopsis

«Trilce» (Lima, 1922) es el libro mas radical de la poesia escrita en lengua castellana, surgido al comienzo del cambio estetico que atraviesan las vanguardias de su tiempo. Dos caracteristicas definen esencialmente a «Trilce»: «dificil», por su escritura hermetica y por la tendencia del poema a borrar sus referentes, y «demandante», porque exige al lenguaje decirlo todo nuevo, como si nada estuviese dicho. Nuestra edicion establece el texto fidedigno y mas solvente, a la vez que hace la historia critica y comentada de cada uno de los poemas.

About this title

From the Publisher:

We have attempted to reproduce the original edition, retaining all typographical and linguistic ambiguities, and matching the original typeface as closely as possible. This is the companion volume to ABRAXAS #40/41, which presents an additional 76 page selection from Trilce, and a second Translator's Preface. [See Trilce (selections bound in ABRAXAS #40/41) ISBN 0-932868-07-X]

From the Author:

I have been reading Vallejo in the original since 1970 and was persuaded to undertake the translation of this, his most difficult work, only by something analogous to a gravitational pull. My aim in translating this most difficult work was to create English poems, poems that would work in English in the same way that the original works in Spanish. Those who know Spanish have access to the original, but a translation exists to bring the work over into another tongue, to create the poem for the reader who has no access to the original. I also hoped that, in the process, I would be able to convey the multidimensionality of Vallejo's poems, and, that the reader who is able to read both English and Spanish, would hear in the dialogue between the original and my translation, another third possibility. I also hoped to place Vallejo's work into its proper context, as a work of indigenous blood, to paraphrase Vallejo himself, as aspect of his work which has been critically overlooked, despite his own words on the subject.

About this edition

• Publisher: Losada
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 9500307510
• ISBN 13: 9789500307512
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128