lunes, 24 de agosto de 2009

Vallejo, the poet of the pain


Cesar Vallejo was born in Trujillo in 1892. His infancy was humble together with his brothers. He was employed as teacher at his youth and was teacher of Ciro Alegría, a future novelist Vallejo travels to Lima where he knows the big authors of the epoch. In 1919, he publishes The Black Heralds. On returning to Trujillo, he was imprisoned in an unjust way in an attempt. He passes three months in the jail, where he writes Trilce's poems and the stories of Escalas melografiadas.
In 1922, Vallejo arrives to Paris, there he works as correspondent of several Peruvian newspapers. He marries the French lady, Georgette Philippart. In Europe he writes the poems that will belong to Human Poems. Vallejo dies of a strange disease in 1938.

1 comentario:

  1. Nice article, and forever Cesar Vallejo is going to be the most amazing poet from Perú.

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