Selected Writings of César Vallejo

"With his ferocious radicalism and bridge-burning experimentalism, Peruvian César Vallejo played avant-garde to the avant-garde. This wonderful selection of his poems, letters, essays, plats, and journalistic writings, with erudite and thoughtful commentary by Joseph Mulligan, gives us a brilliant and inviting open door to access the inner workings of the convulsive, dark, agonistic, and magically creative mind of one of the most radical innovators of twentieth-century literature. This book will change the rules of the Vallejo game forever."—Gustavo Faverón Patriau

"Apart from his poetry, the great Peruvian writer wrote a thesis on Spanish Romantic poetry, a novel, short stories, children's fiction, plays, two travelogues, journalism, political essays, philosophical notebooks, and a plethora of letters to family members, friends and literary colleagues which are eloquent, persuasive, sometimes heartbreaking. ... This edition is superb."—Stephen M. Hart, UCL Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies

"Vallejo's prose has so far gone largely untranslated into English. Joseph Mulligan's excellent new Selected Writings of César Vallejo, just coming out from Wesleyan, should transform Vallejo's reception, with its huge variety of poetry, drama, fiction, journalism, reviews, aesthetic theory, chronicles, and correspondence."—David Lau, Lana Turner Journal

"Vallejo's writing, in the end, simply mesmerizes. He writes from a state of constant self-recognition and revelation Again and again, Vallejo's focus hovers over his awareness within the immediate activity of writing, drawing attention to the vital importance of the ongoing present."—Patrick James Dunagan, Jacket 2

"With his ferocious radicalism and bridge-burning experimentalism, Peruvian César Vallejo played avant-garde to the avant-garde. This wonderful selection of his poems, letters, essays, plats, and journalistic writings, with erudite and thoughtful commentary by Joseph Mulligan, gives us a brilliant and inviting open door to access the inner workings of the convulsive, dark, agonistic, and magically creative mind of one of the most radical innovators of twentieth-century literature. This book will change the rules of the Vallejo game forever."—Gustavo Faverón Patriau

"This generous volume of Selected Writings a helps us to fill the gaps and get a fuller sense of Vallejo as an author and actor on the intellectual stage."—Times Literary Supplement

"Selected Writings is extraordinary in its choice of texts and the quality of translations. Mulligan brings scholarship on Vallejo to a new level of expertise while making that knowledge accessible to a wider audience."—Ernesto Livon-Grosman, Boston College

"César Vallejo is rightly known as a major twentieth century poet. Thanks to Joseph Mulligan's impressive edition, English readers will appreciate Vallejo's poetry in the context of his essays, journalism, letters, and explorations of other literary genres.""—Efrain Kristal, UCLA

"Selected Writings is extraordinary in its choice of texts and the quality of translations. Mulligan brings scholarship on Vallejo to a new level of expertise while making that knowledge accessible to a wider audience."—Ernesto Livon-Grosman, Boston College