Cesar Vallejo - Complete Poetry and Selected Writings (9 books)

CÉSAR VALLEJO (1892-1938) was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist who in exile became a major voice of social change in Spanish American literature. Although he published only three books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century, taking the Spanish language to an unprecedented level of emotional rawness and stretched its grammatical possibilities.

Vallejo's first book of poems, THE BLACK HERALDS (1918), showed the stylistic influence of Parnassianism and Modernism in his exploration of what became his major themes: his loss of security when his mother and older brother died; his resulting sense of the futility and inherent limitations of life; and the inability of human beings to achieve their potential because of social oppression and injustice.

In 1920 Vallejo's involvement in political matters concerning Indians led to his imprisonment, an experience that heightened his feeling of loss and contributed to a depression that tormented him the rest of his life. Many of the more complex poems of TRILCE (1922) were conceived during his imprisonment, and signaled his complete break with tradition by incorporating neologisms, colloquialisms, typographic innovations, and startling imagery, with which he sought to express the disparity that he felt existed between human aspirations and the limitations imposed on people by biological existence and social organization.

Vallejo came to believe that poetry should be devoid of all traditional devices in its description of the human condition, and that literature should serve the cause of the masses. Marxism seemed to him to be the only way of rectifying the abuses and injustices he saw in society, and two visits to Russia in the late 1920s reinforced that political commitment. Living in Madrid as a political exile, Vallejo wrote the proletarian novel TUNGSTEN (1931), showing the brutal exploitation and degradation of Indian workers at a Peruvian tungsten mine. The Spanish Civil War inspired most of his last important volume of poetry, HUMAN POEMS (1939), which presents an apocalyptic vision of an industrial society in crisis and unable to advance beyond a state of mass evil, alienation, and despair.

Most of the poems of the 1930s were published only after Vallejo's death, and appear in the COMPLETE POEMS (2007) and COMPLETE POSTHUMOUS POETRY (1978). In addition to his poetry, SELECTED WRITINGS (2015), edited by Joseph Mulligan, includes magazine and newspaper articles, chronicles, political reports, fictions, plays, letters, and notebooks.


The following books are in ePUB format unless otherwise indicated:

* Complete Poetry (California, 2007). C. Eshleman, trans.
* Complete Posthumous Poetry (California, 1978). Eshleman & Barcia, trans. -- PDF
* Human Poems: Bilingual Edition (Grove, 1969). C. Eshleman, trans. -- PDF
* Malanga Chasing Vallejo: Selected Poems (Three Rooms, 2014). G. Malanga, trans.
* Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems (Beacon, 1993). R. Bly, ed.
* Scales (Wesleyan, 2017). J. Mulligan, trans.
* Selected Writings (Wesleyan, 2015). J. Mulligan, ed.
* Spain, Take This Chalice from Me (Penguin Classics, 2008). M. Sayers Peden, trans.
* Tungsten: A Novel (Syracuse, 1988). R. Mezey, trans. -- PDF

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