{"product_id":"scales-czssar-vallejo-9780819577238","title":"Scales: Melographed by César Vallejo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first complete English translation of a Latin American avant-garde masterpiece\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1923, just before César Vallejo left Peru for France, Scales combines prose poems with short stories in a collection that exhibits all the exuberance of the author's early experimentalism. A follow-up to Vallejo's better-known work, Trilce, this radical collection shattered many aesthetic notions prevailing in Latin America and Europe. Intermingling romantic, symbolist, and avant-garde traditions, Scales is a poetic upending of prose narrative that blends Vallejo's intercontinental literary awareness with his commitment to political transformation. Written in part from Trujillo Central Jail, where Vallejo would endure some of the most terrifying moments of his life, Scales is also a testament of anguish and desperation, a series of meditations on justice and freedom, an exploration of the fantastic, and a confrontation with the threat of madness. Edited and translated from the Castilian by the scholar Joseph Mulligan, this first complete English translation, published here in bilingual format and accompanied by extensive archival documentation related to Vallejo's incarceration, this volume gives unprecedented access to one of the most inventive practitioners of Latin American literature in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e César Vallejo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0819577235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819577238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/17\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/26\/2017","brand":"César Vallejo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46721273757951,"sku":"9780819577238","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_65c7e5d8-652d-497d-bec2-9933c4c7f6ef.jpg?v=1742752371","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/scales-czssar-vallejo-9780819577238","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}