Name: The Complete Memoirs: Pablo Neruda
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Author: Neruda, Pablo ; St Martin, Hardie ; West, Adrian Nathan
ISBN: 9780374538125

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Pablo Neruda

Translated by

Adrian Nathan West

Hardie St Martin

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

496

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.1x13.7x3.3 cm

Weight

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9780374538125

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Complete Memoirs: Pablo Neruda "

The classic memoir of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, now expanded with newly discovered material Southern Chile was an open frontier when the beloved poet Pablo Neruda was born there in 1904. A motherless, pensive child in the wild, he began writing poems long before quitting the countryside for Santiago, where he spent his bohemian student years. From there, his memoir follows his travels as a globetrotting Chilean consul--including a stint in Spain during its civil war, and in Mexico, where he attracted attention for aiding a man suspected of conspiring to assassinate Leon Trotsky--and his short-lived service as a Chilean senator. Neruda, a communist, was driven from his senate seat in 1948, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. After a year in hiding, he escaped on horseback over the Andes, then to Europe and Asia. The memoirs conclude shortly after the coup in 1972 that overthrew his close friend Salvador Allende, Chile's first democratically elected president, as Neruda himself battled cancer. Now expanded to include newly discovered material, The Complete Memoirs is the definitive edition of Neruda's classic memoir--a moving, revealing record of his life as a poet, a patriot, and one of the twentieth century's true men of conscience.

Pablo Neruda

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Pablo Neruda (Parral, Chile, 1904 - Santiago, Chile, 1973), pseudonym of Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, was one of the most influential and recognized poets of the 20th century. His extensive work ranges from passionate romanticism to political and social poetry. Among his most celebrated books are Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Canto General, and Residence on Earth. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971, his poetry has been translated into numerous languages and remains one of the most prominent voices in Latin American literature.

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