No. 27 (2022): “El traje que vestí mañana”. One hundred years of Trilce (1922-2022)

Monteagudo wants to celebrate the first centenary of the first edition of Trilce, the second collection of poems by César Vallejo, and the last one he published during his lifetime, since the editions of the poems written in Paris, baptized by Georgette Philipart as Human Poems, and the writings during the Spanish Civil War, Spain, take this chalice away from me, came off the presses in book format posthumously, after the funeral illness, physical and moral, that ended the life of César Abraham in 1938. This book, Trilce, which –as the author pointed out to his friend Antenor Orrego– was ignored for decades by his contemporaries, has been recognized as one of the most transcendental milestones of the Latin American avant-garde. By virtue of its originality and expressive vigor, in addition to the suggestive fascination of the neologism chosen by Vallejo as its title, it is finally considered a masterpiece of Hispanic poetry, born in the greatest freedom, a “sacred” freedom as its own author defined it, where the greatness that all authentic poetry beats.