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Informationen zum Autor Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924). Pablo Neruda is often considered the national poet of Chile, and his works have been popular and influential worldwide. The Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez once called him "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language. Klappentext The classic and deeply moving memoir by Pablo Neruda! the most widely read political poet of our time and winner of the Nobel Prize The south of Chile was a frontier wilderness when Pablo Neruda was born in 1904. In these memoirs he retraces his bohemian student years in Santiago; his sojourns as Chilean consul in Burma! Ceylon! and Java! in Spain during the civil war! and in Mexico; and his service as a Chilean senator. Neruda! a Communist! was driven from his senate seat in 1948! and a warrant was issued for his arrest. After a year in hiding! he escaped on horseback over the Andes and then to Europe; his travels took him to Russia! Eastern Europe! and China before he was finally able to return home in 1952. The final section of the memoirs was written after the coup in 1972 that overthrew Neruda's friend Salvador Allende. Many of the century's most important literary and artistic figures were Neruda's friends! and figure in his memoirs--Garcia Lorca! Aragon! Picasso! and Rivera! among them--and also such political leaders as Gandhi! Nehru! Mao! Castro! and Che Guevara. In his uniquely expressive prose! Neruda not only explains his views on poetry and describes the circumstances that inspired many of his poems! but he creates a revealing record of his life as a poet! a patriot! and one of the twentieth century's true men of conscience. ...
