Pablo Neruda: A Passion For Life - Softcover

Feinstein, Adam

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9781582345949: Pablo Neruda: A Passion For Life

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ISBN 10: 1582345945 ISBN 13: 9781582345949

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2005

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Pablo Neruda More than thirty years after Pablo Neruda's death, his poetry continues to be read all over the world. His range is vast: from the lyricism of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair and the melancholy of Residence on Earth to the direct simplicity of the Elemental Odes and the epic grandeur of the Canto General. Few Nobel laureates have enjoyed such enduring popularity. Pablo Neruda was a complic... Full description

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The first comprehensive English-language biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean author and poet traces his odyssey from a poverty-stricken youth, through his participation in the Spanish Civil War and exile from his own country, through his dedication to Communism and turbulent personal life, to his remarkable literary endeavors. Reprint.

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This is a magnificent biography (Harold Pinter)

‘Feinstein's biography is fuelled by an infectious enthusiasm for the poems: this is its greatest strength ... it is crammed with adventure stories, narrow scrapes, passionate encounters' (Andrew Motion, Guardian)

‘A magnificently researched work ... compelling ... Feinstein brilliantly elucidates the main driving forces behind Neruda's life and work' (Independent)

‘Feinstein has written an excellent book on Neruda's life, personality, poetry and politics. He uses an immense range of written sources, as well as interviews with those who knew Neruda' (Irish Independent)

‘Feinstein's impressive life, the first such major undertaking in English, is meticulously researched and features a great deal of newly translated material' (Sunday Tribune)

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