Pablo Neruda
The first authoritative biography of the most enduring poet of the twentieth century

'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' GUARDIAN

'A magnificently researched work ... Feinstein brilliantly elucidates the main driving forces behind Neruda's life and work' INDEPENDENT
__________________________
Poet and politician, Pablo Neruda continues to cast a long shadow across the world fifty years after his death in the wake of the 1973 Chilean coup.

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, Neruda's range was vast. Few Nobel laureates have enjoyed such enduring popularity.

Neruda was a complicated man, both politically and emotionally. In this first authoritative biography, Adam Feinstein draws on revealing interviews with his closest friends, acquaintances and surviving relatives, as well as newly discovered documents. He follows Neruda's life from a sickly childhood in Chile to political engagement and literary fame, until his death in 1973, within days of the death of Salvador Allende in the coup that brought Pinochet to power.

This acclaimed biography, now updated with an afterword about the recent exhumation of Neruda's remains, tells the full story of an iconic twentieth-century figure for the first time.
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Pablo Neruda
The first authoritative biography of the most enduring poet of the twentieth century

'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' GUARDIAN

'A magnificently researched work ... Feinstein brilliantly elucidates the main driving forces behind Neruda's life and work' INDEPENDENT
__________________________
Poet and politician, Pablo Neruda continues to cast a long shadow across the world fifty years after his death in the wake of the 1973 Chilean coup.

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, Neruda's range was vast. Few Nobel laureates have enjoyed such enduring popularity.

Neruda was a complicated man, both politically and emotionally. In this first authoritative biography, Adam Feinstein draws on revealing interviews with his closest friends, acquaintances and surviving relatives, as well as newly discovered documents. He follows Neruda's life from a sickly childhood in Chile to political engagement and literary fame, until his death in 1973, within days of the death of Salvador Allende in the coup that brought Pinochet to power.

This acclaimed biography, now updated with an afterword about the recent exhumation of Neruda's remains, tells the full story of an iconic twentieth-century figure for the first time.
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Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda

by Adam Feinstein
Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda

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The first authoritative biography of the most enduring poet of the twentieth century

'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' GUARDIAN

'A magnificently researched work ... Feinstein brilliantly elucidates the main driving forces behind Neruda's life and work' INDEPENDENT
__________________________
Poet and politician, Pablo Neruda continues to cast a long shadow across the world fifty years after his death in the wake of the 1973 Chilean coup.

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, Neruda's range was vast. Few Nobel laureates have enjoyed such enduring popularity.

Neruda was a complicated man, both politically and emotionally. In this first authoritative biography, Adam Feinstein draws on revealing interviews with his closest friends, acquaintances and surviving relatives, as well as newly discovered documents. He follows Neruda's life from a sickly childhood in Chile to political engagement and literary fame, until his death in 1973, within days of the death of Salvador Allende in the coup that brought Pinochet to power.

This acclaimed biography, now updated with an afterword about the recent exhumation of Neruda's remains, tells the full story of an iconic twentieth-century figure for the first time.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781596917811
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 12/08/2008
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 510
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Adam Feinstein is a prize-winning translator of Spanish and Latin American poetry, as well as a journalist and broadcaster specializing in foreign affairs. He lives in London.
Adam Feinstein has published articles on Spanish and Latin American literature in many newspapers and magazines, and has translated the work of Federico García Lorca and Mario Benedetti for Modern Poetry in Translation. He has worked for the Latin American Service of the BBC and has been a London correspondent for one of Spain's leading national daily newspapers, El Mundo. He lives in London.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsvii
List of Illustrationsix
Introduction1
1Secrets, shadows, wine and rain 1904-203
2A bohemian in Santiago 1921-2725
3Asian desolation: 1927-3251
4Back home, new battles--and Buenos Aires 1932-3481
5Spanish sorrow--the turning-point 1934-37104
6A life-saving mission 1937-40130
7Mexican magic, marriage, a tragic telegram and a mordant badger 1940-43150
8From the rich heights of Machu Picchu down to the poverty of the driest place on Earth 1943-48171
9'A year of blind rats'--Neruda in hiding 1948-49202
10Delia and Matilde--an Eastern European juggling act 1949-52236
11Return the conquering hero 1952-59284
12The new regime 1959-66320
13The other Cuban crisis 1966-68343
14The Nobel Prize--and a last, passionate love 1968-72359
15The final years--and a posthumous gift 1972-73391
Notes423
Select Bibliography451
Copyright Acknowledgements467
Index471
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