This year not only marks the centenary of the birth of José María Arguedas, but also that of Emilio Adolfo Westphalen (1911-2001 .) Surrealist poet mark an important part of his literary output, tireless cheerleader magazines like Dwellings or Amaru, essayist subtle lineage Paul Valéry, Westphalen left an early testimony of his poetic genius in brief but intense poems as the strange islands (1933) and Abolish the Death (1935). After immersed in silence for decades and only sporadically published some poems. Over forty years later came another image despicable ..., published by the Fondo de Cultura Economica. It is a valuable collection a glimpse of how the work force was gathering Westphalen, despite the almost private edition of its two first collections of poems. We can say that the latter is the top of the production of the poet. In The strange islands wielded a surreal writing, but with a look unorthodox. Not led blindly by the principles of André Breton, but remained an undeniable lyrical. In Abolish the Death orbit away from the surreal to cultivate a verse more about a classical perspective. Westphalen shares with César Moro iconoclastic vision, that is, a perspective that breaks new preset and takes a break as a vital practice. So they wrote Bishop Vicente Huidobro or bottled a pamphlet that castigated the Chilean poet at the same time questioned the uncritical assimilation of European models in Latin America. It marks the centenary of the birth of Emilio Adolfo Westphalen. The best tribute to a writer who was a friend of José María Arguedas, is reread and see how his work has expired, paradoxically, the inexorable passage of time.
