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César Vallejo




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    César
    Vallejo

    César Abraham Vallejo was born on March 16, 1892, in
    Santiago de Chuco, an isolated town in north central Perú.
    Vallejo's grandmothers were Chimu Indians and both of his
    grandfathers, by a strange coincidence, were Spanish Catholic
    priests. He was the youngest of eleven children and grew up in a
    home saturated with religious devotion. Vallejo entered the
    School of Philosophy and Letters at Trujillo University in 1910,
    but had to drop out for lack of money. Between 1908 and 1913, he
    started and stopped his college education several times, working
    in the meantime as a tutor and in the accounts department on a
    large sugar estate. At the sugar estate, Vallejo saw thousands of
    workers arrive in the courtyard at dawn to work in the fields
    until nightfall for a few cents a day and a fistful of rice.
    Seeing this devastated Vallejo and later inspired both his poetry
    and his politics.

    In 1913 Vallejo enrolled again at Trujillo University and
    studied literature and law, and read voraciously about
    determinism, mythology, and evolution. After receiving a Master's
    Degree in Spanish literature in 1915, Vallejo continued to study
    law until 1917. However, his life in Trujillo had become
    complicated by a tortured love affair and he moved to Lima.
    Vallejo found work as the principal of a prestigious school. At
    night he visited opium dens in Chinatown and hung out in the
    Bohemian cafe where he
    met the important literary figures of the time, including
    Manual
    Gonzalez Prada, one of Peru's leading
    leftists. When Vallejo's Los heraldos negros was
    published, in 1919, it was received enthusiastically. Vallejo
    then began to push his talent in a new direction.

    Vallejo lost his teaching post for refusing to marry a woman
    with whom he was having an affair. In 1920, after his mother's
    death and the loss of a second teaching job, Vallejo visited his
    home. During a feud that broke out before his arrival in Santiago
    de Chuco, an aide to the sub prefect was shot and the general
    store burned to the ground. Vallejo, who was actually writing up
    the legal information about the shooting for the sub prefect, was
    blamed as an "intellectual instigator." In spite of protest
    telegrams from intellectuals and newspaper editors, he was
    imprisoned for 105 days. When released on parole, he left for
    Lima, embittered by the affair.

    In 1922, Vallejo published Trilce, a book written while
    in hiding before his arrest. Trilce, which placed Latin
    American poetry in the center of Western cultural tradition,
    appeared to come out of nowhere. Vallejo continued to teach while
    in Lima, but in the spring of 1923 his position was eliminated.
    Fearing that he could still be forced to go back to jail, he
    accepted the invitation of his friend Julio Gálvez to go
    to Paris. Vallejo left Peru for good in June 1923.

    Vallejo and Gálvez nearly starved in Paris. It wasn't
    until 1925 that Vallejo found his first stable job in a newly
    opened press agency and began to receive a monthly grant from the
    Spanish government to continue his law studies at the University
    of Madrid. Since
    he was not required to stay on campus Vallejo remained in Paris,
    where he continued to receive the money for two years. The grant,
    plus the income from articles, enabled Vallejo to move into the
    Hotel Richelieu in 1926 and
    frequent exhibitions, concerts, and cafe He met Antonin Artaud,
    Pablo Picasso, and
    Jean Cocteau. The somber, straightforward works he wrote during
    this period form a bridge between Trilce and the densely
    compassionate and bitter poetry he would write in the
    thirties.

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