Csar Abraham Vallejo Mendoza (Santiago de Chuco, March 16, 1892 - Paris, April 15, 1938) was a

Peruvian poet and writer. It is regarded as one of the greatest innovators of twentieth-century poetry
and the epitome of the letters in your country.1 was in critical review Thomas Merton, "the greatest
universal poet since Dante" and according to Seymour Martin -Smith, "the greatest poet of the
twentieth century in all languages"
EARLY YEARS
Csar Abraham Vallejo Mendoza was born in Santiago de Chuco, a hilltop village in the department of La
Libertad, Peru. His parents were Francisco de Paula Vallejo Benitez and Maria de los Santos Mendoza
Gurrionero. He was the youngest of eleven children. His mestizo appearance was because their
grandmothers were indigenous and Galician grandparents. It was a "very dark man, with a boxer's nose
and hair gel in your hair", as Csar Gonzlez Ruano recalled in an interview published in the Heraldo de
Madrid on January 27, 1931.
LA BOHEMIA TRUJILLO.
In 1913 Trujillo returns in order to resume his studies in literature. To pay for his studies, he worked as a
teacher in the School Center Men # 241, and then as a teacher of the first grade at the National College
of San Juan, where he had as little student Ciro Alegra, who later became in a large novelista.3 The
September 22, 1915 from which he graduated in Arts with his thesis Romanticism in Spanish poetry.
TRAVEL TO LIMA: THE BLACK HERALD.
He embarks on the Ucayali steam and reaches Lima on December 30, 1917. Meet the cream of the
intelligentsia Lima. , Who had been an angry critic of his poetry (mess had called the poem "The poet to
his beloved"), but who this time shows signs of respect encounters Clemente Palma. Reach interview
with Jos Mara Eguren and Manuel Gonzlez Prada, who was younger then considered a teacher and
guide. In the capital, Vallejo was associated with writers and intellectuals like Abraham and Colnida
Valdelomar group, Jos Carlos Maritegui; both makes deep friendship. He also meets Luis Alberto
Sanchez and Juan Parra del Riego. Also, some of his poems published in the journal South America
journalist Carlos Prez Cnepa.
PRISON IN TRUJILLO: TRILCE.
He embarks on the Ucayali steam and reaches Lima on December 30, 1917. Meet the cream of the
intelligentsia Lima. , Who had been an angry critic of his poetry (mess had called the poem "The poet to
his beloved"), but who this time shows signs of respect encounters Clemente Palma. Reach interview
with Jos Mara Eguren and Manuel Gonzlez Prada, who was younger then considered a teacher and
guide. In the capital, Vallejo was associated with writers and intellectuals like Abraham and Colnida
Valdelomar group, Jos Carlos Maritegui; both makes deep friendship. He also meets Luis Alberto
Sanchez and Juan Parra del Riego. Also, some of his poems published in the journal South America
journalist Carlos Prez Cnepa.
TRIP TO EUROPE.
Tired of local mediocrity, and had his sights set on the Old World. With the money he owed the Ministry
of Education, to Europe, from which no return is embarked. Ride the steam Oroya the June 17, 1923,
with a coin of five hundred suns. Top Paris on July 13. Your income-never enough-came from journalism,
but also served as translator. He wrote for the newspaper El Norte de Trujillo, and magazines
L'Amrique Latine in Paris, Madrid and Spain for Alfar La Corua.
DEATH IN PARIS.
Died on April 15, 1938, a saint with light rain in Paris Friday but not Thursday, as it is believed that
predicted in his poem "Black Stone on a White Stone". He makes embalming. His eulogy was given by
the French writer Louis Aragon. On April 19, his remains were transferred to the House of Culture and
later to Montrouge cemetery. On April 3, 1970, his widow, Georgette, meets one of the fondest dreams
of the poet and the remains transferred to the cemetery of Montparnasse, writing in his epitaph:
WORK.
Vallejo covered almost all literary genres: poetry, fiction (novels and short stories), plays and essays. It
also should be mentioned his copious journalism (reports and articles).
POETRY.
It is generally agreed that it is in the lyrics where Vallejo reaches its true expression and heights. It
consists of three stages: modernist, avant-garde and revolutionary.
MODERN STAGE.
Includes poetry book The Black Heralds (Lima, 1919). It is the beginning of the poet's search for an
expressive differentiation, which is likely to grow stronger throughout his work. Vallejo was necessary to
establish a poetic language different from the traditional.
VANGUARD STAGE.
Includes poems Trilce (Lima, 1922), one of the greatest books of poetry of the postwar art world. The
poems born in a very special context for the poet. His bewilderment at the world had increased: the
death of his mother, her failed relationships, the experience of not being fully accepted in Lima and stay
in a gloomy prison Trujillo, are the major events that shaped the profound sense of exclusion poet.
These experiences forged in him the feeling of human being prisoner of the existence of society and
were the origin of tear poet, infinite pain enclosing each poem, and its density and tightness.
REVOLUTIONARY STAGE.
The poems of this period are published posthumously, work done by the poet's widow, encompassing
the texts under the common title of Human Poems (Paris, July 1939). Although it should be noted that
the poems Spain, this cup away from me, and had been ordered by the same individual as Vallejo book
and it was published months earlier, in January 1939, in Spain.
'THEATRE.
Vallejo four theater pieces, none of which was released or published during his lifetime, although
fragments of his drama, Mampar are also preserved, but in the version in French under the title Les
taupes (written between 1929 preserved and 1930), which references are made also in a critical letter
from producer Louis Jouvet. This drama is the conflict of a husband with his mother and supposedly
destroyed the original author.
TEST.
Vallejo published a book of chronicles entitled Russia in 1931. Reflections at the foot of the Kremlin
(Madrid, 1931) and prepared for other presses similarly titled Russia before the Second Five Year Plan
(completed in 1932 but was released later in 1965).