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Paperback. Pablo Neruda (1904 1973) is Latin America's best known and, for many, greatest poet. He was also perhaps its most controversial. This title focuses on what the poetry sometimes strategically hides about Neruda the creator, the lover and the political proselytiser, as well as on what it reveals. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 192 pages, 25 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 336.
Pablo Neruda (1904 1973) is Latin America's best known and, for many, greatest poet. He was also perhaps its most controversial. Adored by readers the world over for the sumptuous love lyrics penned during his early years in his native Chile, and revered by fellow poets and literary critics for the dark, hypnotic verse he composed during his lonely years as a diplomat in the Far East, his later life was marked by an increasingly militant communism, the seeds of which can be traced to his experiences in Spain during the early months of the Spanish Civil War, and which ... Read more
Pablo Neruda (1904 1973) is Latin America's best known and, for many, greatest poet. He was also perhaps its most controversial. Adored by readers the world over for the sumptuous love lyrics penned during his early years in his native Chile, and revered by fellow poets and literary critics for the dark, hypnotic verse he composed during his lonely years as a diplomat in the Far East, his later life was marked by an increasingly militant communism, the seeds of which can be traced to his experiences in Spain during the early months of the Spanish Civil War, and which ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Critical Lives
Condition
New
Weight
335g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861895141
SKU
V9781861895141
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About Dominic Moran
Dominic Moran is a lecturer and tutor in Spanish at Christ Church College, Oxford University. He has written books and articles on a range of twentieth-century Spanish American writers including Julio Cortazar and Alejo Carpentier. He has also published a critical edition of Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.
Reviews for Pablo Neruda
... as Moran shows in this absorbing study, you might have to take away the dross by the truckload, but what remains is real poetry - among the greatest of our age. The Scotsman