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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813514303321

Autore

Vallejo César <1892-1938.>

Titolo

The complete poetry [[electronic resource] ] : a bilingual edition / / César Vallejo ; edited and translated by Clayton Eshleman ; with a foreword by Mario Vargas Llosa ; an introduction by Efraín Kristal ; and a chronology by Stephen M. Hart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2007

ISBN

1-282-35881-2

9786612358814

0-520-93214-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (731 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EshlemanClayton

Disciplina

861/.62

Soggetti

POETRY / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 705-706) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Los heraldos negros = The black heralds -- Trilce -- Poemas humanos = Human Poems -- España, aparte de mí este cáliz = Spain, take this cup from me.

Sommario/riassunto

This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian César Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely presented in facing-page Spanish and English, this volume, translated by National Book Award winner Clayton Eshleman, includes the groundbreaking collections The Black Heralds (1918), Trilce (1922), Human Poems (1939), and Spain, Take This Cup from Me (1939). Vallejo's poetry takes the Spanish language to an unprecedented level of emotional rawness and stretches its grammatical possibilities. Striking against theology with the very rhetoric of the Christian faith, Vallejo's is a tragic vision-perhaps the only one in the canon of Spanish-language literature-in which salvation and sin are one and the same. This edition includes notes on the translation and a fascinating translation memoir that traces Eshleman's long relationship with Vallejo's poetry. An introduction and chronology provide further insights into Vallejo's life and work.