Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems: Parallel Text Edition

ISBN-13: 9780143105305 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 352 str.

Cesar Vallejo; Margaret Sayers Peden; Ilan Stavans

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A major new bilingual edition of the Peruvian poet's work
Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism. Noted scholar Ilan Stavans tackles the avant- garde poet's politics head-on in an enlightening new introduction that places Vallejo in his proper literary context, while Margaret Sayers Peden's new translation does full justice to Vallejo's complex literary style. Including Spanish and English versions of more than eighty poems that span the arc of his career, this volume is certain to become the leading collection of Vallejo's work for years to come.
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O autorze

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), geboren in Kalkutta, entstammte einem Brahmanengeschlecht; aber gerade diese Herkunft aus einer uns in ihrem Reichtum nachgerade abstrakt erscheinenden Welt der Paläste und Landgüter hat seinen Blick für die niederdrückende soziale Wirklichkeit seiner Heimat eher geschärft. So hielt es ihn, der schon als Achtzehnjähriger der gefeierte Dichter seiner Heimat war und dessen Werk 1913 mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur gekrönt wurde, nicht in dem Elfenbeinturm des weltabgewandten Poeten. Er starb 1941.