César Vallejo

by Cesar Vallejo

César Vallejo


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César Vallejo (vah-YAY-hoh) wrote fiction, plays, and essays, as well as lyric poetry, although his achievement as a poet far outstrips that in any other genre. His short stories—many of them extremely brief—may be found in Escalas melografiadas (1923; musical scales). A longer short story, “Fabla salvaje” (1923; primitive parlance), is a tragic idyll of two rustic lovers, and Hacia el reino de los Sciris (1967; toward the kingdom of the Sciris) is set in the time of the Incas. El tungsteno (1931; Tungsten, 1988),...

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