A paid assassin was waiting for César Vallejo in the prison of Trujillo, Peru. The poet was incarcerated from November, 1920 to March 1921. He had been falsely accused of a terrorist attack. The judge extracted false confessions under torture. With all those elements against him, Vallejo faced a long-term sentence in a prison where the inmates were driven insane or were killed under suspicious circumstances His imprisonment was an attempt of intimidation and punishment against a generation who saw in socialism the only solution against the perversity of power in their country. Cesar Vallejo's Season in Hell narrates the youth of Cesar Vallejo, one of the most important authors of poetry in the 20th century. A team of professors led by the great Peruvianist Stephen M. Hart has realized this splendid English version. Eduardo Gonzalez Viaña is the author of this biographical novel which reveals secrets hidden for one century. This book is indispensable to understand Vallejo's poetry and, likewise, is unforgettable. Cesar Vallejo's Season in Hell immediately takes its place among the best of the genre, and is unlikely that it will be surpassed in elegance, incisiveness and originality in this century. Javier Junceda, Universidad Internacional de Cataluña, Spain.
About the Author: Peruvian-born Eduardo González Viaña pens bold and powerful depictions of immigrant life in the United States as they face fierce challenges adapting to life on the other side of the border. He is an Emeritus professor at Western Oregon University, and is a member of the Peruvian and the North American Academies of Spanish Language. He has published more than 40 books. His novel El corrido de Dante (Arte Público 2007) has been published in seven different countries and languages. It was translated to English as Dante's Ballad and to Italian as La Ballata di Dante Dante's Ballad was considered the best novel in Spanish language written in the United States in 2007 and the author received the Latino International Prize of Novel of the USA. Gioconda Belli and Isabel Allende shared the Second Prize. His novel Vallejo en los infiernos is the first biographical novel written about the life of César Vallejo, one of the most transcendental poets of the XX century in the Spanish language. It has been translated to the English language as César Vallejo's Season in Hell by a group of professors led by Stephen M. Hart