Pablo Neruda (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Adam Feinstein
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1904-1973
- Setting: Chile
- Principal Characters: Pablo Neruda, José del Carmen Reyes, Maria Antonieta Hagemaar Vogelganz, Delia del Carril, Matilde Urrutia, Salvador Allende
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Wives, Communism or communists, Politics, Love or romance, Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, Obsession, Women, South America or South Americans, Chile or Chileans, Impressionism
- Locales: Chile
The life of Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature, was anything but peaceful. In a biography that appears on the centenary of the Chilean poet's birth, Adam Feinstein, a journalist and translator of Spanish and Latin American poetry, conveys the reader directly into Neruda's exciting, tantalizing life. Just a recounting of the famous people Neruda encountered—Pablo Picasso, Federico García Lorca, Diego Rivera, Leon Trotsky, Jorge Luis Borges, Jawaharlal Nehru, Arthur Miller—would be book enough without any of the other episodes that make up Neruda's...
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