Cárcel y escritura:En torno a Trilce (1922), de César Vallejo, después de vivir un siglo

This article examines the historical-biographical conditions that led to the creation of Trilce (1922 [1987]), by César Vallejo, one of the most significant works of Latin America's early 20th-century the writing conditions of this poetry, which were fundamentally determined by the prison printing press in Lima and the expeavant-garde. The emphasis of the reading suggested here is on rience of jail in the city of Trujillo. Conclusion: The rhetorical and typographic innovations proposed by Trilce can be understood not only from the traditional reading of the work based on pain, death, orphanhood, and eroticism, but also as a substantive part of the work where writing and typography are directly related to the closed world of prison.