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On the first of August, the house belonging to the Santa María Calderón family, who transported merchandise and alcohol by pack animals from the coast, was looted and set on fire. Vallejo was unjustly accused as a both a participant and instigator of the act.
On Good Friday, 15 April 1938, Vallejo died of a mysterious illness. His widow, published his posthumous poems the following year. Vallejo’s fame grew exponentially after his death, and he is now seen as one of Latin America’s most important poets.
He also endured poverty and a chronic illness of which he died in 1938. While Vallejo published during his lifetime, he left behind hundreds of pages of material—poems, prose, and plays—at his death and much of his work has been published posthumously.
César Vallejo is dead. They struck him, All of them, though he did nothing to them, They hit him hard with a stick and hard also With the end of a rope. Witnesses are: the Thursdays, The shoulder bones, the loneliness, the rain, and the roads…
March 16, 1892, Santiago de Chuco, Peru. Died: April 15, 1938, Paris, France (aged 46) Notable Works: “Human Poems” “Los heraldos negros” “Trilce” “Tungsten”
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mar 17, 2014 · This week marks the birthday of the great Peruvian poet and revolutionary César Vallejo (16 March 1892 – 15 April 1938). Born the youngest of 11 children in a small village high in the Andes,...
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César Vallejo is dead. Everyone beat him although he never does anything to them; they beat him hard with a stick and hard also with a rope. These are the witnesses: the Thursdays, and the bones of my arms, the solitude, and the rain, and the roads. . .
