Love by Pablo Neruda
Poems from the Film Il PostinoThe poems collected in this book are at the heart of the film Il Postino, a cinematic fantasy spun from an apocryphal incident in the life of the Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, Pablo Neruda.
Neruda is a monsterLike all great epic monsters, when he's not bellowing, preaching or lamenting, he is capable of amazing delicacy and contained passion, especially in the lyrical poems - sonnets, romances, and free-verse 'odes' - which are netted in this book. It dazzlingly distills a profound, tender imagination -- Michael Schmidt
The poems today remain as urgently gorgeous as freshly picked flowers -- Carol Ann Duffy * Daily Telegraph *
The poems today remain as urgently gorgeous as freshly picked flowers -- Carol Ann Duffy * Daily Telegraph *
Born Neftal-Ricardo Reyes Basoalto in southern Chile in 1904, Pablo Neruda led a life charged with poetic and political activity. His first book, Crepusculario (Twilight) was published in 1923. The following year, he published Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair), which turned him into a celebrity. In 1927 he began his long career as a diplomat, serving as Chilean consul in numerous places including Burma, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Mexico and France. He was elected to the Chilean Senate in 1943 but later expelled for being a Communist. In 1952 the government withdrew the order to arrest leftist writers and political figures, and Neruda returned to Chile. For the next twenty-one years, he continued a career that integrated private and public concerns and became known as the people's poet. During this time, Neruda received numerous prestigious awards, including the International Peace Prize in 1950, the Lenin Peace Prize and the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. He died of leukaemia in Santiago, Chile in 1973.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781860461866 |
| ISBN 10 | 1860461867 |
| Title | Love |
| Author | Pablo Neruda |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1995-12-07 |
| Number of pages | 48 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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