Dec 18, 2009
César Vallejo 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. Hacia el reino de los Sciris (1967; toward the kingdom of the Sciris), set in the time of the Incas, is usually described as a novel, despite its brevity. El tungsteno...
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