To Gastón Roger, December 1920 114
To Óscar Imaña, February 12, 1921 115
To Óscar Imaña, June 1, 1922 116
To Antenor Orrego, 1922 116
To Manuel Natividad Vallejo, June 16, 1923 117
To Carlos C. Godoy, Esq., June 16, 1923 118
To Víctor Clemente Vallejo, July 14, 1923 119
To Carlos Raygada, September 15, 1923 120
Articles and Chronicles
The Blue Bird 121
La Rotonde 122
Cooperation 124
Articles and Chronicles
Paris Chronicle 129
Spain in the International Exhibit of Paris 134
Modern Man 137
Between France and Spain 139
The Need to Die 142
The History of America 143
The Assassin of Barrès 145
The Poet and the Politician 148
The State of Spanish Literature 150
Da Vinci’s Baptist 151
In Defense of Life 154
A Great Scientific Discovery 155
Latest Scientific Discoveries 157
The Idols of Contemporary Life 159
Avant-Garde Religions 161
Against Professional Secrets 164
The New Disciplines 167
Life as a Match 170
Artists Facing Politics 172
Contribution to Film Studies 174
Madness in Art 175
The Passion of Charles Chaplin 177
Invitation to Clarity 179
Proletarian Literature 180
Colonial Societies 183
The Psychology of Diamond Specialists 185
Literature behind Closed Doors 186
Vanguard and Rearguard 188
Anniversary of Baudelaire 190
The Masters of Cubism 191
Tolstoy and the New Russia 193
From Art and Revolution
The Revolutionary Function of Thought 196
The Work of Art and the Social Sphere 197
Grammatical Rule 198
Poetry and Imposture 199
Tell Me How You Write and I’ll Tell You What You Write 199
Universality of Verse for the Unity of Languages 200
Aesthetic and Machinism 200
Autopsy of Surrealism 201
New Poetry 205
The Image and Its Syrtes 206
The Mayakovsky Case 207
Regarding Artistic Freedom 210
My Self-Portrait in the Light of Historical Materialism 211
From Against Professional Secrets
From Feuerbach to Marx 213
Explanation of History 213
“An animal is led” 214
“There exist questions” 214
The Head and Feet of Dialectics 214
The Death of Death 214
The Motion Inherent in Matter 215
Individual and Society 215
Negations of Negations 216
Reputation Theory 221
Noise of a Great Criminal’s Footsteps 223
Conflict between the Eyes and the Gaze 224
Languidly His Liqueur 225
Vocation of Death 226
From Toward the Reign of the Sciris
1. The Other Imperialism 229
2. The Seer 231
3. The Peace of Túpac Yupanqui 236
4. An Accident on the Job 239
5. Byzantium, West Longitude 241
From Moscow vs. Moscow
The Final Judgment 245
Death 247
From The River Flows between Two Shores
Act 1, Scene 1 264
Act 1, Scene 2 264
Act 1, Scene 3 275
Letters
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, May 14, 1924 294
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, May 26, 1924 295
To Alcides Spelucín, July 1924 296
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, October 19, 1924 297
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, November 5, 1924 298
To Juan Larrea, March 12, 1926 299
To Ricardo Vegas García, May 15, 1926 300
To Juan Larrea, July 26, 1926 300
To Alcides Spelucín, September 14, 1926 302
To José Carlos Mariátegui, December 10, 1926 302
To Emilio Armaza, December 10, 1926 303
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, July 24, 1927 303
To Luis Alberto Sánchez, August 18, 1927 305
To Pablo Abril de Vivero, September 12, 1927