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contributions of Vallejo
...like an outsider because of his Indian heritage, he succeeded in establishing contacts with leading avant-garde artists. He kept in touch with Peru by publishing articles in Amauta, the journal founded by his friend José Carlos Mariátegui, founder of the Peruvian Communist Party.
founding by Mariátegui
...to establish the Peruvian Socialist Party in 1928; its name was changed to the Peruvian Communist Party in 1930. Though paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair, Mariátegui also founded Amauta (1926–30), a Marxist cultural and literary journal that published avant-garde writing. In essays in La escena contemporánea (1925; “The Contemporary...