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César Vallejo

A Poet of the Event

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Authors:
  1. Víctor Vich

    1. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru

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  • Considers poetic language and reads Vallejo’s as a poet of the event
  • Studies Vallejo’s radical political poetry
  • Contributes to the study of Latin American poetry

Part of the book series: Studies in Revolution and Literature (SRL)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Víctor Vich
    Pages 1-6

  3. A Poet of the Ethics of the Real

    • Víctor Vich
    Pages 7-35

  4. A Poet of the Language Crisis

    • Víctor Vich
    Pages 37-58

  5. A Poet of the “Part With No Part”

    • Víctor Vich
    Pages 59-82

  6. A Poet Who Announces the Event

    • Víctor Vich
    Pages 83-103

  7. A Poet of the Communist Event

    • Víctor Vich
    Pages 105-144

  8. A Poet of Lost Causes

    • Víctor Vich
    Pages 145-172

  9. Vallejo and Political Art Beyond Death (Conclusions)

    • Víctor Vich
    Pages 173-179

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 181-227
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About this book

This book argues that the poetry of César Vallejo announces the event, as a moment of irruption of a truth that destabilises the usual state of reality. It studies the emergence of a subject who affirms a truth that exceeds the law, interrupts hegemonic repetition, asserts universal solidarity, and defends "lost causes" despite political failure. The author reconfigures the traditional reading of Vallejo only as a poet of pain and human suffering, and offers new ways of understanding the relationship between poetry and politics.

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“This book reveals that the political reading of Vallejo's poetry demands that we radically rethink politics itself. The singular ethical force of this poetry resides there. We have to think reality from the excess, that is, from what does not fit in ideological schematisms, nor in the concepts themselves. With a great pedagogical spirit, through lucid theoretical expositions and precise commentaries on the texts, this book shows us that Vallejo wrote a poetry that is absolutely alive for our times: a poetry that demands that we live in a different way.” (William Rowe, Birkbeck College, University of London) 

“From this careful study, César Vallejo emerges as a poet-witness of the event, ready to assume the constitutive flaw of the human being but capable of affirming the radical possibility of a communist politics of equality. By following the philosophy of Alain Badiou, as well as the clues of other thinkers (from Marx to Mariátegui, from Butler to Žižek), Víctor Vich has succeeded in producing an original, new, and other Vallejo.” (Bruno Bosteels, Columbia University, USA)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru

    Víctor Vich

About the author

Víctor Vich is Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima. He has been a visiting Professor at several universities in the United States and has published various books about Peruvian poetry. He won the Guggenheim grant in 2010.

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