César Moro

Alfredo Quíspez Asín, who took the name César Moro in 1921, was born in Lima in 1903. Leaving for Paris in 1925, at first for dance, he turned to painting and poetry, joined the Surrealists and became the only Latin American poet in André Breton's journals; he wrote almost all his work in French. Back in Lima in 1933, he formed a Surrealist group there with Emilio Adolfo Westphalen. Settled in Mexico City in 1938, in 1940 he organised there, with Wolfgang Paalen, the international Surrealist exhibition. Back in Lima in 1948, he taught French there until his death, in January 1956.

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• PoetryThe Equestrian TurtleLa tortuga ecuestreCésar Moro · 1957Literature