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Also known as Cesar Abraham Vallejo Mendosa, Cesar Abraham Vallejo Mendoza, C. Vallejo

Peruvian writer

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César Vallejo was a Peruvian writer whose work had significant impact on literature in the Spanish-speaking world. He is remembered as an important literary figure whose writing helped shape modern Spanish-language poetry and prose.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1892
Died
1938
Works
307

Top works

  • El romanticismo en la poesía castellana
  • Obra poética completa
  • Poemas en prosa
  • ME MORIRE EN PARIS
  • Paco Yunque y Otros Cuentos

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Type
Group
Origin
Austin
Active from
1994
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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
17
Total plays
94

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Quotes

  • Los intelectuales son rebeldes, pero no revolucionarios.
  • El puro y desadaptado que choca con el mundo de las farsas y de las apañucias.
  • Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and sinks into itself. The heavier the spirit, the higher and farther it flies.
  • La mecánica es un medio o disciplina para pealizar la vida, pero no es la vida misma. Esa debe llevarnos a la vida misma, que está en el juego de sentimentos o sea en la sensibilidad.
  • Las artes (pintura, poesía, etc.) no son solo éstas. Artes son también comer, beber, caminar: todo acto es un arte.

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César Vallejo
date of birth
1892-03-16
date of death
1938-04-15
birth name
César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza
name in native language
César Vallejo
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César Vallejo
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César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza (March 16, 1892 – April 15, 1938) was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. Although he published only two books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century in any language. Thomas Merton called him "the greatest universal poet since Dante". The late British poet, critic and biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, a leading authority on world literature, called Vallejo "the greatest twentieth-century poet in any language." He was a member of the intellectual community called North Group formed in the Peruvian north coastal city of Trujillo.

Clayton Eshleman and José Rubia Barcia's translation of The Complete Posthumous Poetry of César Vallejo won the National Book Award for translation in 1979.

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