Amauta

…Peru by publishing articles in Amauta, the journal founded by his friend José Carlos Mariátegui, founder of the Peruvian Communist Party.

…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 Scene”), Mariátegui attacked fascism and defined the responsibilities of the intellectual in countries where social oppression reigns. César Vallejo, Peru’s greatest poet, was deeply…