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. 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. Perhaps no other modern poet received as much international recognition as Pablo Neruda, for in his poetry he addressed universal concerns, writing pa.
After a year in hiding, he escaped on horseback over the Andes, then to Europe and Asia. Neruda, a communist, was driven from his senate seat in 1948, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. 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. Kp boken Memoirs av Pablo Neruda (ISBN 9780374527532) hos Adlibris. 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. Beatriz Hausner is a published poet and the translator of some 20 works of literature, principally from Spanish into English. Southern Chile was an open frontier when the beloved poet Pablo Neruda was born there in 1904. Pablo Neruda’s Memoirs have, if not a clear-cut theme, at least an unmistakable guiding principle: The book is an account of a poet’s life. The classic and deeply moving memoir by Pablo Neruda the most widely read political poet of our time and winner of the Nobel Prize The south of Chile was.
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