Fernández, Carlos;
(2021)
El camino a Trilce.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
Abstract
This thesis examines the resistance of César Vallejo himself along with a significant group of critics to accept publicly the avant-garde ascendancy of Trilce. Adopting a historical perspective, I produce a contextualised reconstruction of Vallejo’s poetic development until 1922 and of the foundational scholarship on the matter. The first chapter explores Vallejo’s early acquaintance with poetry in the context of his education, his first attempts to enter the literary field, bringing to light new information about the literary milieu in which Vallejo and his peers produced their work. The second chapter studies Vallejo’s poetic activity between September 1915 and July 1919, focusing on the poems that appeared in periodicals, and on the relationship of Los heraldos negros with symbolism, as it was viewed by a number of critics at the time of its publication. The third chapter makes a case for the Dadaist ascendancy of Trilce, and regards Vallejo’s encounter with Dada Paris as the major catalyst of his aesthetic metamorphosis. In order to argue the Dadaist case, I study the compositional process of the book —the early printed versions published in June 1921, the traces of the reception of Dada in Peru before the announcement of Vallejo’s artistic tour, and the contrast of early and definitive versions of Trilce— and, finally, analyse the cover, prologue and poems of the editio princeps of Trilce, paying attention to the likely traces of the impact of Dadaism at different textual levels. Building on the analysis of Antenor Orrego’s account of Vallejo’s biography in his “Palabras prologales”, the fourth chapter and the epilogue draw attention to the main reasons behind the subsequent rejections or attributions of the avant-garde genealogy of Trilce until 1971, a key year for the history of the controversy on this matter which, ultimately, this thesis intends to illuminate.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | El camino a Trilce |
| Event: | UCL (University College London) |
| Language: | Spanish |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10134889 |
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