Cesar Vallejo

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Born on a Day When God Was Ill March 12, 2025

The myth of César Vallejo, the Peruvian poet and hero of the avant-garde, precedes him. He’s the ailing hero of Roberto Bolaño’s Monsieur Pain (1984; translation 2010), a mystery novel in which a larger-than-life writer is attacked by a sudden bout o...