Tungsten

novel by Vallejo
Also known as: “El tungsteno”

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  • Vallejo, César
    In César Vallejo

    …proletarian novel El tungsteno (1931; Tungsten), showing the brutal exploitation and degradation of Indian workers at a Peruvian tungsten mine. He returned to Paris in 1932, and he then spent two years in Spain during that nation’s civil war (1936–39). The Spanish Civil War inspired most of his last important…

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