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. 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. The south of Chile was a frontier wilderness when Pablo Neruda was born in 1904. The final section of the memoirs was written after the coup in 1972 that overthrew Neruda's friend Salvador Allende. 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. His first two books, self published and rather traditional, brought little attention from the public, although they were well-crafted and polished. 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 son of a railway engineer, Neruda wrote poetry from an early age and won prizes as a teenager. He also discusses what membership in the Communist Party meant to him since he came from a working class family and spent time with the miners and poor in his country. Neruda, a Communist, was driven from his senate seat in 1948, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Pablo Neruda writes poetically about his country, Chile, and his duties representing his country and his poetry around the world.

Southern Chile was an open frontier when the beloved poet Pablo Neruda was.

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. The classic memoir of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, now expanded with newly. Pablo Neruda was a Nobel laureate whose poetry chronicled the lives and struggles of ordinary Latin Americans, and whose life was upheld as a symbol of resistance to dictatorship. The south of Chile was a frontier wilderness when Pablo Neruda was born in 1904.

The classic and deeply moving memoir by Pablo Neruda, the most widely read political poet of our time and winner of the Nobel Prize

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