| Summary: | This article proposes a reflection on the value of Chaplin’s cinema and his fetish character Charlot in the search and conquest of a poetic modernity through the study of texts (poetry and prose) by three authors, César Vallejo, Xavier Abril and Emilio Adolph Westphalen, who can be considered as founders and builders of contemporary Peruvian poetry. The appropriation of the figure of Chaplin, as we will argue, expresses the thirst to be “contemporary of all men” (Paz, 1998, 340). In this article we will examine this appropriation is in continuity with the modernist design and cosmopolitanism, which “synchronizes Latin American art with that of cultural metropolis” (Yurkievich, 1988, 12), or, rather, if it presents itself as problematization and indicator of the evolution of the positions of the cultures and literatures of the periphery with respect to the center.
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