Espacios y ausencias: desarraigo y tragedia del exilio en César Vallejo y Eugenio Montale

Abstract

César Vallejo (1892-1938) and Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) have brought up to date the lyric tradition and have merged it with new ideas and elements. Both writers were influenced by the same historic events that shook Europe and America. Nevertheless, they have been able to keep a hint of their own regional traditions: Vallejo from Peru, where he grew up, and Montale from Italy. They also bore the consequences of political changes. Finally, during their poetic production both writers have been associated with Hermetism.
Considering all these aspects, we are able to approach some of Vallejo’s and Montale’s poems about absence and home as inner space and memory, on the one hand, and in connection to absences, emotional ties and reminiscences, on the other hand.