César Vallejo A Poet of the Event

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.

1. Introduction.- 2. A Poet of the "Ethics of the Real".- 3.A Poet of the Language Crisis.- 4. A Poet of the "Part With No Part”.- 5. A Poet Who Announces the Event.- 6. A Poet of the Communist Event.- 7. A Poet of "Lost Causes”.- 8. Vallejo and Political: Art Beyond Death (Conclusions).

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.