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Perifrasis. Rev. Lit. Teor. Crit. | eISSN 2145-9045 | ISSN 2145-8987

LAND, LOVE AND PAIN IN VALLEJO’S TRILCE: AN AFFECTIVE APPROACH

No. 6 (2012-07-01)
  • Alberto López

Abstract

Scholars have often highlighted the inscrutability and self-referentiality of Trilce’s most inaccessible lines. Making use of recent reviews on the Theory of Affects, I will nonetheless try to prove that the trilcean Vallejo apprehends his immediate environment in a way that prioritizes the sensory and the affective experience over the intellectual; a hypothesis that would restore a key role in the book for the often underestimated physical dimension of experience.

Keywords: César Vallejo, Trilce, affect theory, naturalism, 20th century latin american poetry