Download or read book César Vallejo: The Dialectics of Poetry and Silence written by Jean Franco and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1976-09-02 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study in English of the Peruvian poet, César Vallejo (1892-1938). Franco explores limitations on the poet's freedom of speech, and goes on to explore Vallejo's later poetry, which gestures towards the tentative nature of humanity and civilisation that gives the poetry its abiding relevance.