10:18 | Lima, Apr. 03 (ANDINA).
Peru’s Export and Tourism Promotion Board (PromPerú) seeks to increase tourism in northern Peru with the launch of the "El Norte de Cesar Vallejo" tourist literary guide.
The idea is to take advantage of the reader’s imagination based on the locations and characters from the books by Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo.
"El Norte de Vallejo" book is a journey through the cities of Trujillo and the highlands of La Libertad region, which inspired the works of the greatest Peruvian poet of all times.
Rafo Leon, the book's author and tourist guide on this trip, has selected several passages from Vallejo’s books and poems which take the reader back to his childhood places.
After a first tourist guide based on Mario Vargas Llosa work, this second release of Rutas Literarias guides includes various locations mentioned throughout Vallejo's book: Trilce (1922) The Black Heralds (1918) and Escalas Melografiadas (1923).
Cesar Vallejo
Born in Santiago de Chuco, a small town in the Andean sierra of northern Peru, Cesar Vallejo is the best-known Peruvian poet of the twentieth century.
His 1922 book-length sequence Trilce was one of only two collections of his poetry published during his lifetime, the other being Los heraldos negros (The Black Heralds).
Vallejo was a political radical and a communist, and for part of his life lived in exile in Paris where he studied Marxism, leaving to visit Russia three times in the 1930s to observe for himself the great Soviet experiment in social engineering.
In those years, he met Antonin Artaud, Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau and fell in love with, and married, a French girl named Georgette Philippart.
Vallejo wrote stories, essays, a novel and several plays, but did not collect any of his subsequent poems for book publication. Since his death, these poems have usually been referred to as the Poemas Humanos after the title of one of the posthumous volumes.
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Publicado: 3/4/2009