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Selected Writings of CÉSAR VALLEJO
Title
Copyright
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Note on This Edition
List of Translators
BOOK ONE: 1915-1919
From Romanticism in Castilian Poetry
Introduction
Critique of Romanticism
From The Black Heralds
The Black Heralds
The Spider
The Poet to His Lover
Dregs
The Black Cup
Imperial Nostalgias
Ebony Leaves
Autochthonous Tercet
Huaco
Dead Idyll
Agape
The Voice in the Mirror
Our Bread
The Miserable Supper
The Eternal Dice
Distant Footsteps
To My Brother Miguel
Januneid
Epexegesis
Articles and Chronicles
With Manuel González Prada
With José María Eguren
Abraham Valdelomar Has Died
Letters
To Óscar Imaña, January 29, 1918
To Óscar Imaña, August 2, 1918
To Manuel Natividad Vallejo, December 2, 1918
Dedication of a Copy of The Black Heralds to Friends in Trujillo, July 1919
BOOK TWO: 1920-1923
From Trilce
I. "Who's making all that racket"
II. "Time Time"
IV. "Two carts grind our eardrums down"
VI. "The suit that tomorrow I wore"
IX. "I sdrive to dddeflect at a blow the blow"
X. "Primary and final stone of groundless"
XIII. "I think about your sex"
XVII. "This 2 distills in a single batch"
XVIII. "Oh the four walls of the cell"
XX. "Flush with the beaten froth bulwarked"
XXIII. "Estuous oven of those my sweet rolls"
XXV. "Chess bishops upthrust to stick"
XXVIII. "I've had lunch alone now"
XXX. "Burn of the second"
XXXI. "Hope between cotton bawls"
XXXVI. "We struggle to thread ourselves through a needle's eye"
XXXVIII. "This crystal waits to be sipped"
XLII. "Wait, all of you. Now I'm going to tell you"
XLIV. "This piano journeys within"
XLV. "I lose contact with the sea"
XLIX . "Murmured in restlessness, I cross".
L. "Cerberus four times"
LII. "And we'll get up when we feel"
LV. "Samain would say"
LVI. "Every day I wake blindly"
LVII. "The highest points craterized"
LVIII. "In the cell, in what's solid"
LXI. "Tonight I get down from my horse"
LXIII. "Dawn cracks raining"
LXV. "Mother, tomorrow I am going to Santiago"
LXVIII. "We're at the fourteenth of July"
LXX. "Everyone smiles at the nonchalance"
LXXI. "Coils the sun does in your cool hand"
LXXIII. "Another ay has triumphed"
LXXV. "You are dead"
LXXVII. "It hails so hard, as if to remind me"
From Scales
Northwestern Wall
Antarctic Wall
East Wall
Doublewide Wall
Windowsill
Beyond Life and Death
The Release
Wax
From Savage Lore
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Letters
To La Reforma, August 12, 1920
To Óscar Imaña, October 26, 1920
To Gastón Roger, December 1920
To Óscar Imaña, February 12, 1921
To Óscar Imaña, June 1, 1922
To Antenor Orrego, 1922
To Manuel Natividad Vallejo, June 16, 1923
To Carlos C. Godoy, Esq., June 16, 1923
To Víctor Clemente Vallejo, July 14, 1923
To Carlos Raygada, September 15, 1923
Articles and Chronicles
The Blue Bird
La Rotonde
Cooperation
BOOK THREE : 1924-1928
Articles and Chronicles
Paris Chronicle
Spain in the International Exhibit of Paris
Modern Man
Between France and Spain
The Need to Die
The History of America
The Assassin of Barrès
The Poet and the Politician
The State of Spanish Literature
Da Vinci's Baptist
In Defense of Life
A Great Scientific Discovery
Latest Scientific Discoveries
The Idols of Contemporary Life
Avant-Garde Religions
Against Professional Secrets
The New Disciplines
Life as a Match
Artists Facing Politics
Contribution to Film Studies
Madness in Art.
The Passion of Charles Chaplin
Invitation to Clarity
Proletarian Literature
Colonial Societies
The Psychology of Diamond Specialists
Literature behind Closed Doors
Vanguard and Rearguard
Anniversary of Baudelaire
The Masters of Cubism
Tolstoy and the New Russia
From Art and Revolution
The Revolutionary Function of Thought
The Work of Art and the Social Sphere
Grammatical Rule
Poetry and Imposture
Tell Me How You Write and I'll Tell You What You Write
Universality of Verse for the Unity of Languages
Aesthetic and Machinism
Autopsy of Surrealism
New Poetry
The Image and Its Syrtes
The Mayakovsky Case
Regarding Artistic Freedom
My Self- Portrait in the Light of Historical Materialism
From Against Professional Secrets
From Feuerbach to Marx
Explanation of History
"An animal is led"
"There exist questions"
The Head and Feet of Dialectics
The Death of Death
The Motion Inherent in Matter
Individual and Society
Negations of Negations
Reputation Theory
Noise of a Great Criminal's Footsteps
Conflict between the Eyes and the Gaze
Languidly His Liqueur
Vocation of Death
From Toward the Reign of the Sciris
1. The Other Imperialism
2. The Seer
3. The Peace of Túpac Yupanqui
4. An Accident on the Job
5. Byzantium, West Longitude
From Moscow vs. Moscow
The Final Judgment
Death
From The River Flows between Two Shores
Act 1, Scene 1
Act 1, Scene 2
Act 1, Scene 3
Letters
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, May 14, 1924
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, May 26, 1924
To Alcides Spelucín, July 1924
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, October 19, 1924
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, November 5, 1924
To Juan Larrea, March 12, 1926
To Ricardo Vegas García, May 15, 1926
To Juan Larrea, July 26, 1926.
To Alcides Spelucín, September 14,1926
To José Carlos Mariátegui, December 10, 1926
To Emilio Armaza, December 10, 1926
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, July 24, 1927
To Luis Alberto Sánchez, August 18, 1927
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, September 12, 1927
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, October 19, 1927
To Rafael Méndez Dorich, February 17, 1928
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, March 17, 1928
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, April 26, 1928
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, October 19, 1928
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, December 27, 1928
Notebooks
Entries from 1926-1928
BOOK FOUR: 1929-1935
From Human Poems
Good Sense
I Am Going to Speak of Hope
"No one lives in the house"
Height and Hair
Hat, Overcoat, Gloves
Black Stone on a White Stone
"And don't say another word to me"
"It was Sunday in the clear ears of my jackass"
"Today I like life much less"
Epistle to the Passersby
The Hungry Man's Rack
"Considering coldly"
"Idle on a stone"
Paris, October 1936
"And if after so many words"
Telluric and Magnetic
"The miners came out of the mine"
From Reflections at the Foot of the Kremlin
8. Literature: A Meeting of Bolshevik Writers
9. The Day of a Stonemason: Love, Sports, Alcohol, and Democracy
14. Film: Russia Inaugurates a New Era on the Silver Screen
From Russia Facing the Second Five- Year Plan
What Is the Workers' Club?
Workers Discuss Literature
The Mechanical Landscape
Art and Revolution
Dialectics and Manual Labor
Articles and Chronicles
The Lessons of Marxism
The Youth of America in Europe
Megalomania of a Continent
The Economic Meaning of Traffic
New Poetry from the United States
Buried Alive
From Warsaw to Moscow
Mundial in Russia
Mundial in Eastern Europe
Three Cities in One
Latest Theater News from Paris
An Incan Chronicle.
The Incas, Revived
From Tungsten
Chapter 1
Paco Yunque
From Brothers Colacho
Act 1, Scene 1
Act 1, Scene 2
Letters
To Néstor P. Vallejo, October 27, 1929
To José Carlos Mariátegui, October 17, 1929
To Gerardo Diego, January 6, 1930
To Gerardo Diego, January 27, 1932
To Juan Larrea, January 29, 1932
Notebooks
Entries from 1929-1935
BOOK FIVE: 1936-1938
Articles and Chronicles
Recent Discoveries in the Land of the Incas
The Andes and Peru
Man and God in Incan Sculpture
The Great Cultural Lessons of the Spanish Civil War
Popular Statements of the Spanish Civil War
The Writer's Responsibility
From Human Poems
"Today I would like to be happy willingly"
Poem to Be Read and Sung
"The tip of man"
"My chest wants and does not want its color"
"I stayed on to warm up the ink"
"The peace, the wausp, the shoe heel, the slopes"
"Confidence in glasses, not in the eye"
"Alfonso: you are looking at me"
"Chances are, I'm another"
The Book of Nature
"The anger that breaks the man into children"
Intensity and Height
Guitar
The Nine Monsters
"A man walks by with a baguette on his shoulder"
The Soul That Suffered from Being Its Body
"Let the millionaire walk naked, stark naked!"
"The fact is the place where I put on"
"In short, I have nothing with which"
The Wretched
Sermon on Death
From Spain, Take This Cup from Me
I. Hymn to the Volunteers for the Republic
III. "He used to write with his big finger in the air"
IV. "The beggars fight for Spain"
VIII. "Back here, / Ramón Collar"
X. Winter during the Battle for Teruel
XII. Mass
XV. Spain, Take This Cup from Me
From The Tired Stone
Act 1, Scenes 1-6
Act 2, Scenes 1-2
Letters
To Juan Luis Velásquez, June 13, 1936
To Juan Larrea, October 28, 1936.
To Juan Larrea, January 22, 1937.
Selected Writings of CÉSAR VALLEJO
Title
Copyright
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Note on This Edition
List of Translators
BOOK ONE: 1915-1919
From Romanticism in Castilian Poetry
Introduction
Critique of Romanticism
From The Black Heralds
The Black Heralds
The Spider
The Poet to His Lover
Dregs
The Black Cup
Imperial Nostalgias
Ebony Leaves
Autochthonous Tercet
Huaco
Dead Idyll
Agape
The Voice in the Mirror
Our Bread
The Miserable Supper
The Eternal Dice
Distant Footsteps
To My Brother Miguel
Januneid
Epexegesis
Articles and Chronicles
With Manuel González Prada
With José María Eguren
Abraham Valdelomar Has Died
Letters
To Óscar Imaña, January 29, 1918
To Óscar Imaña, August 2, 1918
To Manuel Natividad Vallejo, December 2, 1918
Dedication of a Copy of The Black Heralds to Friends in Trujillo, July 1919
BOOK TWO: 1920-1923
From Trilce
I. "Who's making all that racket"
II. "Time Time"
IV. "Two carts grind our eardrums down"
VI. "The suit that tomorrow I wore"
IX. "I sdrive to dddeflect at a blow the blow"
X. "Primary and final stone of groundless"
XIII. "I think about your sex"
XVII. "This 2 distills in a single batch"
XVIII. "Oh the four walls of the cell"
XX. "Flush with the beaten froth bulwarked"
XXIII. "Estuous oven of those my sweet rolls"
XXV. "Chess bishops upthrust to stick"
XXVIII. "I've had lunch alone now"
XXX. "Burn of the second"
XXXI. "Hope between cotton bawls"
XXXVI. "We struggle to thread ourselves through a needle's eye"
XXXVIII. "This crystal waits to be sipped"
XLII. "Wait, all of you. Now I'm going to tell you"
XLIV. "This piano journeys within"
XLV. "I lose contact with the sea"
XLIX . "Murmured in restlessness, I cross".
L. "Cerberus four times"
LII. "And we'll get up when we feel"
LV. "Samain would say"
LVI. "Every day I wake blindly"
LVII. "The highest points craterized"
LVIII. "In the cell, in what's solid"
LXI. "Tonight I get down from my horse"
LXIII. "Dawn cracks raining"
LXV. "Mother, tomorrow I am going to Santiago"
LXVIII. "We're at the fourteenth of July"
LXX. "Everyone smiles at the nonchalance"
LXXI. "Coils the sun does in your cool hand"
LXXIII. "Another ay has triumphed"
LXXV. "You are dead"
LXXVII. "It hails so hard, as if to remind me"
From Scales
Northwestern Wall
Antarctic Wall
East Wall
Doublewide Wall
Windowsill
Beyond Life and Death
The Release
Wax
From Savage Lore
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Letters
To La Reforma, August 12, 1920
To Óscar Imaña, October 26, 1920
To Gastón Roger, December 1920
To Óscar Imaña, February 12, 1921
To Óscar Imaña, June 1, 1922
To Antenor Orrego, 1922
To Manuel Natividad Vallejo, June 16, 1923
To Carlos C. Godoy, Esq., June 16, 1923
To Víctor Clemente Vallejo, July 14, 1923
To Carlos Raygada, September 15, 1923
Articles and Chronicles
The Blue Bird
La Rotonde
Cooperation
BOOK THREE : 1924-1928
Articles and Chronicles
Paris Chronicle
Spain in the International Exhibit of Paris
Modern Man
Between France and Spain
The Need to Die
The History of America
The Assassin of Barrès
The Poet and the Politician
The State of Spanish Literature
Da Vinci's Baptist
In Defense of Life
A Great Scientific Discovery
Latest Scientific Discoveries
The Idols of Contemporary Life
Avant-Garde Religions
Against Professional Secrets
The New Disciplines
Life as a Match
Artists Facing Politics
Contribution to Film Studies
Madness in Art.
The Passion of Charles Chaplin
Invitation to Clarity
Proletarian Literature
Colonial Societies
The Psychology of Diamond Specialists
Literature behind Closed Doors
Vanguard and Rearguard
Anniversary of Baudelaire
The Masters of Cubism
Tolstoy and the New Russia
From Art and Revolution
The Revolutionary Function of Thought
The Work of Art and the Social Sphere
Grammatical Rule
Poetry and Imposture
Tell Me How You Write and I'll Tell You What You Write
Universality of Verse for the Unity of Languages
Aesthetic and Machinism
Autopsy of Surrealism
New Poetry
The Image and Its Syrtes
The Mayakovsky Case
Regarding Artistic Freedom
My Self- Portrait in the Light of Historical Materialism
From Against Professional Secrets
From Feuerbach to Marx
Explanation of History
"An animal is led"
"There exist questions"
The Head and Feet of Dialectics
The Death of Death
The Motion Inherent in Matter
Individual and Society
Negations of Negations
Reputation Theory
Noise of a Great Criminal's Footsteps
Conflict between the Eyes and the Gaze
Languidly His Liqueur
Vocation of Death
From Toward the Reign of the Sciris
1. The Other Imperialism
2. The Seer
3. The Peace of Túpac Yupanqui
4. An Accident on the Job
5. Byzantium, West Longitude
From Moscow vs. Moscow
The Final Judgment
Death
From The River Flows between Two Shores
Act 1, Scene 1
Act 1, Scene 2
Act 1, Scene 3
Letters
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, May 14, 1924
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, May 26, 1924
To Alcides Spelucín, July 1924
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, October 19, 1924
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, November 5, 1924
To Juan Larrea, March 12, 1926
To Ricardo Vegas García, May 15, 1926
To Juan Larrea, July 26, 1926.
To Alcides Spelucín, September 14,1926
To José Carlos Mariátegui, December 10, 1926
To Emilio Armaza, December 10, 1926
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, July 24, 1927
To Luis Alberto Sánchez, August 18, 1927
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, September 12, 1927
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, October 19, 1927
To Rafael Méndez Dorich, February 17, 1928
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, March 17, 1928
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, April 26, 1928
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, October 19, 1928
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, December 27, 1928
Notebooks
Entries from 1926-1928
BOOK FOUR: 1929-1935
From Human Poems
Good Sense
I Am Going to Speak of Hope
"No one lives in the house"
Height and Hair
Hat, Overcoat, Gloves
Black Stone on a White Stone
"And don't say another word to me"
"It was Sunday in the clear ears of my jackass"
"Today I like life much less"
Epistle to the Passersby
The Hungry Man's Rack
"Considering coldly"
"Idle on a stone"
Paris, October 1936
"And if after so many words"
Telluric and Magnetic
"The miners came out of the mine"
From Reflections at the Foot of the Kremlin
8. Literature: A Meeting of Bolshevik Writers
9. The Day of a Stonemason: Love, Sports, Alcohol, and Democracy
14. Film: Russia Inaugurates a New Era on the Silver Screen
From Russia Facing the Second Five- Year Plan
What Is the Workers' Club?
Workers Discuss Literature
The Mechanical Landscape
Art and Revolution
Dialectics and Manual Labor
Articles and Chronicles
The Lessons of Marxism
The Youth of America in Europe
Megalomania of a Continent
The Economic Meaning of Traffic
New Poetry from the United States
Buried Alive
From Warsaw to Moscow
Mundial in Russia
Mundial in Eastern Europe
Three Cities in One
Latest Theater News from Paris
An Incan Chronicle.
The Incas, Revived
From Tungsten
Chapter 1
Paco Yunque
From Brothers Colacho
Act 1, Scene 1
Act 1, Scene 2
Letters
To Néstor P. Vallejo, October 27, 1929
To José Carlos Mariátegui, October 17, 1929
To Gerardo Diego, January 6, 1930
To Gerardo Diego, January 27, 1932
To Juan Larrea, January 29, 1932
Notebooks
Entries from 1929-1935
BOOK FIVE: 1936-1938
Articles and Chronicles
Recent Discoveries in the Land of the Incas
The Andes and Peru
Man and God in Incan Sculpture
The Great Cultural Lessons of the Spanish Civil War
Popular Statements of the Spanish Civil War
The Writer's Responsibility
From Human Poems
"Today I would like to be happy willingly"
Poem to Be Read and Sung
"The tip of man"
"My chest wants and does not want its color"
"I stayed on to warm up the ink"
"The peace, the wausp, the shoe heel, the slopes"
"Confidence in glasses, not in the eye"
"Alfonso: you are looking at me"
"Chances are, I'm another"
The Book of Nature
"The anger that breaks the man into children"
Intensity and Height
Guitar
The Nine Monsters
"A man walks by with a baguette on his shoulder"
The Soul That Suffered from Being Its Body
"Let the millionaire walk naked, stark naked!"
"The fact is the place where I put on"
"In short, I have nothing with which"
The Wretched
Sermon on Death
From Spain, Take This Cup from Me
I. Hymn to the Volunteers for the Republic
III. "He used to write with his big finger in the air"
IV. "The beggars fight for Spain"
VIII. "Back here, / Ramón Collar"
X. Winter during the Battle for Teruel
XII. Mass
XV. Spain, Take This Cup from Me
From The Tired Stone
Act 1, Scenes 1-6
Act 2, Scenes 1-2
Letters
To Juan Luis Velásquez, June 13, 1936
To Juan Larrea, October 28, 1936.
To Juan Larrea, January 22, 1937.