TRILCE

VALLEJO, Cesar. Clayton Eshelman

ISBN 10: 0941419517 / ISBN 13: 9780941419512

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

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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. Seller Inventory # 20220062

Bibliographic Details

Title: TRILCE

Publisher: Marsilio Publishers ( 1992 ), New York

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition Thus.

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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.

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]