Bøker av James Higgins

Peru, which in this century has produced world-renowned novelists of the stature of Mario Vargas Llosa and Jose Maria Arguedas, and poets such as the avant-garde CesarVallejo, possesses a distinctive and varied literary culture of great intrinsic value.

James Higgins's readings of the work of six very diverse modern Peruvian poets - Eguren, Vallejo, Belli, Cisneros, Moro, Adan - reveal their common dilemma: how to reconcile the dichotomies of their society; and their common artistic stance: that of the outcast who perceives a higher reality in a visionary, surreal world.

At the same time, these readings form part of a general study which, viewing Peruvian poetry as a process, examines the principal tendencies of the period spanning the 1920s and 1970s and relates it to the major literary movements of modern times and to Peru's socio-political history.