“The Miserable Supper”: César Vallejo and the Poetics of Communion
This essay examines the image of the Eucharist in the poetry of the Peruvian writer César Vallejo (1892-1938). I argue that unlike his modernista forebears, Vallejo regularly employs the Eucharist not as an image of the ecstasy of sexual union, but instead as an image of guilt, melancholy, frustrati...
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Year: 2019, Volume: 100, Issue: 1085, Pages: 22-42 |
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