February 16, 2007
All in a Life's Work: Translating the Poetry of César Vallejo
WIDOWS AND WORD HUNTS: In his foreword to The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo (University of California Press), the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa places his countryman in the category of "inexplicable" poets.
Mr. Vargas Llosa unpacks that label in this way: "It means that ... even after we have studied everything about his poems that rational knowledge has to offer — his sources, his techniques, his unique vocabulary, his influences, the historical
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