How Long to Read The Poetic and Real Worlds of César Vallejo (1892-1938)

How Long Does it Take to Read The Poetic and Real Worlds of César Vallejo (1892-1938)?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 45 minutes to read The Poetic and Real Worlds of César Vallejo (1892-1938) by R. K. Britton

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Description

The world-renowned Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892-1938) was also a journalist, essayist, novelist and would-be dramatist. The study of his life and work has encountered problems since the 1950s, stemming from the fact that half of his writing was published posthumously under editorship of doubtful accuracy. The matter is further complicated in that his non-poetic work has been neglected in favour of his verse. A Struggle between Art and Politics reviews the evidence -- literary and historical -- now reliably to hand, and assesses the often conflicting body of opinion his work has generated. Three essential questions are pertinent: Where should Vallejo be placed in the canon of twentieth-century modernism? What effect did his mid-life conversion to Communism have on his writing? How should his prose fiction, journalism and essays be assessed in relation to his poetry? There are few writers whose literary output follows the twists and turns of their lives more closely than César Vallejo's. This new, comparative study maps his career onto the cultural, social, political and historical backdrop to his life in Peru, France, Spain and Russia, and analyses his writings in the light of his life circumstances. Vallejo's journey from Peru, the cultural "periphery", to the "centre" of inter-war Paris, his experience of European capitalism during the Depression, and the confrontation of Communism and Fascism, ultimately played out in the Spanish Civil War, forced him to wage a personal struggle to reconcile art with life and politics. This challenge is fought out in different ways in his various writings, but nowhere more movingly, passionately and humanely than in his posthumous poetry.

How long is The Poetic and Real Worlds of César Vallejo (1892-1938)?

The Poetic and Real Worlds of César Vallejo (1892-1938) by R. K. Britton is 449 pages long, and a total of 116,291 words.

This makes it 152% the length of the average book. It also has 142% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Poetic and Real Worlds of César Vallejo (1892-1938) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 35 minutes to read The Poetic and Real Worlds of César Vallejo (1892-1938) aloud.

What Reading Level is The Poetic and Real Worlds of César Vallejo (1892-1938)?

The Poetic and Real Worlds of César Vallejo (1892-1938) is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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