Martin and West offer a new edition, adding 19 sections of material from lectures, travel notes, and hitherto lost, unfinished, or unpublished fragments, along with editorial notes about where the material was found. Nearly 50 years after the posthumous publication of the memoir of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), translators St. Now expanded to include newly discovered material, The Complete Memoirs is the definitive edition of Neruda's classic memoir-a moving, revealing record of his life as a poet, a patriot, and one of the twentieth century's true men of conscience.īuy The Complete Memoirs: Expanded Edition by Pablo Neruda from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect. The Nobel Prizewinning poet’s memoirs, newly expanded.

The memoirs conclude shortly after the coup in 1972 that overthrew his close friend Salvador Allende, Chile's first democratically elected president, as Neruda himself battled cancer. After a year in hiding, he escaped on horseback over the Andes, then to Europe and Asia.

Neruda, a communist, was driven from his senate seat in 1948, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. From there, his memoir follows his travels as a globetrotting Chilean consul-including a stint in Spain during its civil war, and in Mexico, where he attracted attention for aiding a man suspected of conspiring to assassinate Leon Trotsky-and his short-lived service as a Chilean senator. 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. A motherless, pensive child in the wild, he began writing poems long before quitting the countryside for Santiago, where he spent his bohemian student years. 12.69 53 Used from 2.66 24 New from 10.99 1 Collectible from 38.85. shelved 454,740 times Showing 30 distinct works.Description - The Complete Memoirs: Expanded Edition by Pablo Neruda Southern Chile was an open frontier when the beloved poet Pablo Neruda was born there in 1904. Books by Pablo Neruda (Author of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) Books by Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda Average rating 4.25

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