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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Pablo Neruda; Pablo Neruda |
Document Type: | Book |
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PABLO NERUDA |
ISBN: | 028564419X 9780285644199 |
OCLC Number: | 1030900401 |
Awards: | Winner of The Nobel Prize for Literature 1971 |
Description: | 1 volume ; 22 cm |
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Regarded as one of the most absorbing and beautiful literary testimonies ever written. -- Daily Mail * Daily Mail * Now reissued...Packed with marvellous details that give colour to the story, as well as providing a way of understanding how Neruda's fascination with real things, in real places, gives a shape to even his most vatic poems. -- The Guardian * . * I laid my hands on the autobiography of Pablo Neruda [Memoirs]. I found it fascinating. I know his poetry, but I'd never read about his life, and afterward I could understand how the poems came out of this man. -- Wole Soyinka * Time, July 9th * His many books are the vast adventure story of his life, wars, travels, politics, and of course loves... The reader who knows no Spanish can be confident that, in reading Alastair Reid's fine translations, he is reading Neruda... the memoirs are a delight; a 'rattling good yarn'. -- London Magazine * . * Enchanting and stylistically exhilarating... eloquent. -- The Times * . * Latin America's greatest poet... His Memoirs are regarded as one of the most absorbing and beautiful literary testimonies ever written. -- Daily Mail * . * Real evocation of the landscapes that were so important to him... In their energy, scope, and exceptional vividness, they alone would justify Neruda's exalted position in modern literature. -- 'The Independent * . * Read more...

