Abstract

LOPEZ, Alejo. A Century After Trilce: Baroque and Counter-Conquest in the Poetry of César Vallejo. Acta poét [online]. 2024, vol.45, n.1, pp.141-164.  Epub May 06, 2024. ISSN 2448-735X.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ap.2024.1/00s231xo077.

As Irlemar Chiampi points out, any debate on Modernity and its crisis in Latin America that does not include the Baroque is partial and incomplete. On this basis we propose that this American imbrication between Baroque and Modernity can be enlighteningly glimpsed in a masterpiece of the Latin American avant-garde such as Trilce, a book published a century ago by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo, in which the Baroque is not merely a stylistic question but a “sensibility”, as the poet called that capacity of the true new poetry to express the modern experience, thus becoming an art of the “counter-conquest”, as the Cuban José Lezama Lima imagined it, as a poetic device capable of testifying the tragic excess of the American Modernity through its immanent baroquism.

Keywords : Trilce; César Vallejo; Latin American Poetry; Baroque; Counter-conquest.