Memoirs
ISBN10: 0374527539
ISBN13: 9780374527532
Trade Paperback
384 Pages
$20.00
CA$26.99
Internationally recognized and celebrated as few poets have ever been, Neruda composed modernist poems on universal concerns, writing passionately and prolifically about love, nature, the beauty of one's homeland (in his case, Chile), and the personal and political wages of existence. In his memoirs, first published after his death in 1973, he looked back on his far-flung adventures to amplify these themes. As this new edition of the Memoirs makes plain, Neruda led a life that was as extraordinary as his art—a life that was in itself a significant part of the history of our time.
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Praise for Memoirs
"[Neruda] is an irresistible story-teller . . . There is the warmth, humor, humanity in these Memoirs of a great poet."—Victor Howes, The Christian Science Monitor
"A sort of distilled essence of [Neruda] in both substance and form . . . The starting point for all future biographers."—Robert Maurer, Saturday Review
"Some of the descriptions of places—India, China, Mexico especially—are brilliant, but it is Chile that emerges most clearly with lights and shadows."—Selden Rodman, National Review