Stephen M Hart

César Vallejo (eBook, PDF)

A Literary Biography

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first biography of Latin America's most important poet. the Peruvian César Vallejo. It traces the important events of his life and evaluates his poetry, fiction, theatre, political essays and journalism.

This is the first biography of Latin America's most important poet, the Peruvian César Vallejo, who was born in an Andean village, Santiago de Chuco, on 16 March 1892 and died in Paris on 15 April 1938. It traces the important events of his life - becoming a poet in Peru, falling in love with Mirtho in Trujillo, writing Trilce which would transform for ever the avant-garde in the Spanish-speaking world, fleeing to Paris in the summer of 1923 afterbeing accused of burning down Carlos Santa María's house in Santiago de Chuco, falling in love with Georgette Philippart and then with communism, writing his Poemas humanos (Human Poems) and then, shortly before hisdeath, writing his moving poems inspired by the Spanish Civil War, España, aparta de mí este cáliz (Spain, Take this Chalice from Me). This book also provides an objective evaluation of Vallejo's poetry, fiction, theatre, political essays and journalism.

Stephen M. Hart is Professor of Latin American Film, Literature and Culture, School of European Languages, Culture and Society, University College London.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782040859
• Artikelnr.: 56146696

Autorenporträt

STEPHEN M. HART is Professor of Latin American Film, Literature and Culture at University College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue Korriscosso's Birth (1892
1917) The Fires of Love (1917
1923) The City of Light (1923
1928) The Soul's Practical Dream (1928
1932) A Death Foretold (1932
1938) Epilogue Bibliography