Bilinguismo / Translinguismo nell’opera poetica di César Moro

Abstract

This article looks at the bilingual literary work of Cesar Moro, considered one of the most important Surrealist authors in Hispanic America. The poet left for Europe at the age of 22 to become a dancer and painter. But, once he met Breton, Eluard, and Peret in Paris, he joined the Surrealist group. He wrote some Surrealist reviews and began to write poetry in French. Moro continued to use French as his main means of expression, even when he returned to Peru in 1933 and moved to Mexico some years later. This article aims to analyse Moro’s bilingual production from a translingual point of view. According to recent research, translingual writers are those who express themselves in various languages, especially other than their mother tongue.