César Vallejo: The Dialectics of Poetry and Silence

by Jean Franco

This 1976 book was the first full-length study in English of the poetry of the Peruvian C sar Vallejo (1892-1938). A major poet, who approached the problem of revolutionary aesthetics in a manner radically different from that of his contemporaries, Vallejo was comparatively little known outside the Spanish-speaking world. This neglect is attributable to the difficulty of a poetry which deliberately resists interpretation and assimilation into the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521157811
• ISBN13: 9780521157810
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"