Excess of reality and grotesque realism in Cesar Vallejo’s poem “The spider”

Abstract

This study results from the analysis of the poem “The spider”, which aims at determining the excess of reality that oversizes and determines in this piece by César Vallejo. In order to demonstrate what has been proposed, we have used the analysis of the text in ques-tion, the theme of which is the unnatural death that leads to a tragic state by perceiving the spider cut into two halves, thus exceeding reality and emphasizing the wickedness of fact. The analysis concludes that excess causes an attitude of bewilderment, brutal stupefaction and un-certainty that poses a new way of facing reality.