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Neruda's tenth organic book, one of his longest, most crafted and the one he avowedly loved best, was also his best-known, owing in great measure to the scandal amidst which he finished writing it while being pursued by the Chilean police for publicly challenging his country's president.
- Enrico Mario Santí
- 2005
Jul 7, 2019 · During the Korean war, which bookended Neruda’s “World Voyage,” Americans allegedly used germ warfare to help destroy the peninsula. Neruda envisioned himself bearing witness to unnecessary interventions and deaths, and celebrated the resilience of the US’s victims.
Since Neruda was in Spain during the war, the experience he lived "profoundly transformed" both "Neruda and his poetry" (Gutierrez 9). His dear friend and fellow writer, Federico Garcia Lorca, disappeared during the conflict.
Abstract. No single Latin American book of the twentieth century engaged more a historicist imagination than Pablo Neruda’s Canto general (1950). I take up it up first in this series of readings not just because of its exemplary treatment of historical data.
- Enrico Mario Santí
- 2005
Mar 26, 2018 · I happened to finish the book—Neruda: The Poet’s Calling—at the end of Trump’s first hundred days in office. As a result, the questions that I’d been exploring for years suddenly took on new urgency.
This paper shows that Neruda’s struggle echoes that of Hikmet who seeks to find a new voice that would revolutionize modern poetry in its embrace of the epic and create a sweeping chronicle which spans time and space, history and geography to form a self-contained vision of a country and its people.
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Neruda died at his home in Isla Negra on 23 September 1973, just hours after leaving the hospital.
