Memoirs
by Pablo Neruda; Hardie St. Martin (trans)
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- ISBN 13
- 9780374527532
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2001. Trade Paperback. Very Good. No markings. Spine creased. Reading wear to covers. Not from a library. 370 pages. The classic and deeply moving memoir by Pablo Neruda, the most widely read political poet of our time and winner of the Nobel Prize.
authors: Pablo Neruda; Hardie St. Martin (trans)
The south of Chile was a frontier wilderness when Pablo Neruda was born in 1904. In these memoirs he retraces his bohemian student years in Santiago; his sojourns as Chilean consul in Burma, Ceylon, and Java, in Spain during the civil war, and in Mexico; and his 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 and then to Europe; his travels took him to Russia, Eastern Europe, and China before he was finally able to return home in 1952. The final section of the memoirs was written after the coup in 1972 that overthrew Neruda's friend Salvador Allende.
Many of the century's most important literary and artistic figures were Neruda's friends, and figure in his memoirs--Garcia Lorca, Aragon, Picasso, and Rivera, among them--and also such political leaders as Gandhi, Nehru, Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara. In his uniquely expressive prose, Neruda not only explains his views on poetry and describes the circumstances that inspired many of his poems, but he creates a revealing record of his life as a poet, a patriot, and one of the twentieth century's true men of conscience.
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- Title
- Memoirs
- Author
- Pablo Neruda; Hardie St. Martin (trans)
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0374527539
- ISBN 13
- 9780374527532
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- January 2001
- Pages
- 370
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- autobiography, biography, memoir, Pablo Neruda, poet, author, Chile
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- Latin America; Biographies; Asia;
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