LIFE IN EUROPE

César Vallejo, considered the maximum representative of the avant-garde in Peru, wanted to travel to
Europe and did so in 1923. He visited various European cities such as Paris, Madrid, Moscow, Budapest,
Brussels and Berlin. He remained on the Old Continent for 15 years and married the French Georgette
Philipard.

Far from our country he wrote Russia in 1931, Reflections at the foot of the Kremlin, as well as a play
called Lock-out. That same year he joined the Spanish Communist Party. He also wrote a novel about the
exploitation of an Indian community titled Tungsten.

Vallejo lacked economic resources in Europe. At first, he lived on newspaper articles and essays that he
sent to different magazines in the country. For this reason Luis Alberto Sánchez wrote: "Europe was
terrible for Vallejo. A man like him, all sensitive, simple and contemplative, leisure, without political
concerns, generous and talkative, had nothing to do."

After his death, in the clinic of Boulevard Arago in Paris, on April 15, 1938, Human Poems and Spain
were published, among others, remove this chalice from me.

We are, therefore, before a major character in Peruvian literature. "For many reasons and from various
angles," LAS points out, "César Vallejo's poetry is considered one of the most representative, unusual
and profound of the language."