Memorial de Isla Negra

FIRST EDITION

8º. 5 vol.

Original rustic bindings with slight wear on the spines. In a sturdy case with multicolored leather label.

These are the volumes that make up the Collection:

Vol I: 104pp + book order. "Donde Nace la Lluvia"

Vol. II: 122pp + book order. "La Luna en el Laberinto"

Vol III: 123pp + book order. "El Fuego Cruel"

Vol IV: 114pp + book order. "El Cazador de Raíces"

Vol V: 135pp + 1h. "Sonata Crítica"

Untrimmed copies, very good condition.

"Memorial de Isla Negra" is the great poetic autobiography that Pablo Neruda publishes to celebrate his 60 years of life. In one of his speeches, he said: "Although there is a biographical thread, I did not seek in this long work, consisting of five volumes, anything but the fortunate or somber expression of each day. It is true that this book is chained like a narrative that disperses and comes together again, a narrative pursued by the events of my own life and by nature, which continues to call me with all its countless voices."

Neruda worked, until the moment of his death, on the great autobiographical aspect of his poetry, but he would not produce a poetic work of the magnitude and consistency of "Memorial" again, where personal events and memories of his life are intertwined with his aspirations and reflections, and especially with the search for the material substances and landscapes of his homeland, from which his personal history and geography draw sustenance.