Ascent and fall in Huidobro's Altazor and Vallejo's trilce

Authors

  • Eduardo Chirinos The University of Montana (Estados Unidos)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7764/ANALESLITCHI.09.03

Keywords:

Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948), Altazor (1931), César Vallejo (1892-1938), Trilce (1922), fallenness, ascent and fall, poetic language, skepticism, poetic play

Abstract

In this essay, I read Vicente Huidobro's Altazor (1931) as a symbolic counterpart to César Vallejos's Trilce (1922). Although these books are diametrically opposed to each other, both of them center on the "experience of seeing oneself as fallen ", imagined simultaneously as an Ascent and a Descent. This experience correlates the performative character of both books with God, and with the language o/ poetry which establishes a conflictive relationship resolved alternatively through play and the harshest  skepticism

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Published

2008-06-30

How to Cite

Chirinos, E. . (2008). Ascent and fall in Huidobro’s Altazor and Vallejo’s trilce. Anales De Literatura Chilena, (9), 47–65. https://doi.org/10.7764/ANALESLITCHI.09.03

Issue

No. 9 (2008): Año 9

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ARTICULOS

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