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Pablo Neruda (1904–1973)

Author of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

535+ Works 21,943 Members 268 Reviews 163 Favorited

About the Author

Pablo Neruda was born Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto in Ferral, Chile on July 12, 1904. In 1923 he sold all of his possessions to finance the publication of his first book, Crepusculario (Twilight), which he published under the pseudonym Pablo Neruda. Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion show more Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair), which was published the following year, made him a celebrity and allowed him to stop his studies to devote himself to poetry. His other works include España en el Corazón, Canto General, Las Uvas y el Viento, and Para Nacer He Nacido. He received numerous awards including the World Peace Prize with Paul Robeson and Pablo Picasso in 1950, the Lenin Peace Prize and the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953, and the Nobel Prize for Literature for his poetry in 1971. He died of leukemia on September 23, 1973. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Pablo Neruda

100 Love Sonnets (1959) 1,526 copies
Memoirs (1973) 1,362 copies
The Captain's Verses (1952) 1,163 copies
Residence on Earth (1935) 886 copies
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda (2005) 875 copies
Canto General (1950) 761 copies
The Book of Questions (1974) 548 copies
Love Poems (1977) 531 copies
The Heights of Macchu Picchu (1950) 333 copies
Extravagaria (1958) 267 copies
Fully Empowered (1962) 240 copies
Isla Negra: A Notebook (1964) 216 copies
Odes to Opposites (1995) 201 copies
The sea and the bells (1976) 175 copies
Elemental Odes (1954) 161 copies
On the Blue Shore of Silence (2003) 152 copies
Para nacer he nacido (1978) 131 copies
Antología poética (1968) 116 copies
The Yellow Heart (1977) 113 copies
Winter Garden (1974) 109 copies
Stones of the Sky (1971) 94 copies
The Separate Rose (1973) 92 copies
Passions and Impressions (1983) 80 copies
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda (2003) 78 copies
Spain in Our Hearts (1937) 68 copies
Still Another Day (1901) 66 copies
Todo el amor (1995) 65 copies
Complete Works I (1999) 65 copies
Crepusculario (1919) 50 copies
World's End (1969) 48 copies
Poesie (Italian Edition) (1998) 47 copies
Song of Protest (1976) 44 copies
Regalo de um poeta (2000) 43 copies
Andien mainingit (1972) 43 copies
Art of Birds (1654) 41 copies
The Hands of Day (1968) 40 copies
Intimacies: Poems of Love (2008) 38 copies
New Poems (1968-1970) (1970) 36 copies
Tercera residencia (1947) 34 copies
Ode an einen Stern (2009) 32 copies
Ceremonial Songs (1961) 32 copies
Poesia de Amor (1998) 31 copies
La solitude lumineuse (2004) 30 copies
La barcarola (1977) 28 copies
Canto general II (1900) 28 copies
Navegaciones y regresos (1959) 27 copies
Nuevas Odas Elementales (1964) 26 copies
Antología esencial (1975) 26 copies
Antologia Fundamental (1988) 26 copies
Canto General I (1900) 26 copies
The Grapes and the Wind (1954) 25 copies
Poesía (1974) 25 copies
Book of Twilight (2017) 23 copies
Obras completas II (1999) 23 copies
Maremoto (1991) 21 copies
2000 (1992) 21 copies
Canción de gesta (1983) 20 copies
Toward the Splendid City (1972) 19 copies
Stones Of Chile (1960) 19 copies
Gedichte (1963) 18 copies
Twenty poems (1967) 17 copies
Complete Works III (2000) 17 copies
Den stora oceanen (1971) 15 copies
Ode aan de typografie (1956) 15 copies
We Are Many (1967) 15 copies
Cartas de amor (2010) 15 copies
Cuadernos de Temuco (1996) 14 copies
Su Mejor Poesía (1985) 14 copies
Letzte Gedichte (1976) 13 copies
La espada encendida (1972) 13 copies
Neruda at Isla Negra (1998) 13 copies
De mooiste van Pablo Neruda (2002) 13 copies
Poesie Di Una Vita (1999) 12 copies
Antología poética, 1 (2000) 11 copies
Neruda, Pablo (1997) 11 copies
Een kooi vol liederen (1974) 10 copies
venture of the infinite man (2017) 10 copies
El Hondero Entusiasta (2002) 10 copies
Pelas praias do mundo (2003) 10 copies
Antología popular (1901) 9 copies
The Habitant and His Hope (1964) 9 copies
Antología poética, 2 (2000) 8 copies
Che's Green Notebook (2007) 8 copies
Tercer libro de las odas (1957) 8 copies
Poesia d'amore 8 copies
Viele sind wir (1978) 7 copies
Pablo Neruda: 50 Odes (1996) 7 copies
Antologia Breve (1999) 7 copies
Antología (1957) 7 copies
Viajes 6 copies
Prólogos (2000) 6 copies
ŞİİRLER 6 copies
Poesie erotiche (2006) 6 copies
Poesia de Pablo Neruda (1988) 6 copies
Yo acuso (2002) 6 copies
Antologia 6 copies
Aún este crepúsculo (2020) 5 copies
Ainda (1975) 5 copies
En el corazon de un poeta (1999) 5 copies
Elegía (1974) 5 copies
Yeryüzünde Konaklama (2015) 4 copies
Poesía 4 copies
Runoja 4 copies
Huellas De Dolor Y Esperanza, Antologia Poetica (1992) — Contributor — 4 copies
Selected poems — Author — 4 copies
Havsbävning (2003) 3 copies
anillos (2014) 3 copies
Der grosse Gesang (1984) 3 copies
Antología popular 1972 (1972) 3 copies
Elegia (2005) 3 copies
Poesía Política (2018) 3 copies
Poesías escogidas (1980) 3 copies
Neruda (2001) 3 copies
The Early Poems (1969) 3 copies
Gedichte 1923 - 1973. (1973) 2 copies
The Sixties, Number Seven (1964) 2 copies
Splenes bok (2009) 2 copies
VALITUT RUNOT (1983) 2 copies
Verblijf op aarde (2004) 2 copies
Poesías 2 copies
Poezje wybrane (1980) 2 copies
Oceana: canti cerimoniali (2005) 2 copies
Seefahrt und Rückkehr (1987) 2 copies
Opere (1963) 2 copies
Poetry 1 copy
Kaptanin Dizeleri (2015) 1 copy
Selección 1 copy
RESIDÊNCIA NA TERRA (2007) 1 copy
The unknown Neruda (2019) 1 copy
Yuz Ask Sonesi (2015) 1 copy
Oder I (2020) 1 copy
Oder II (2020) 1 copy
Grapes And The Wind (2018) 1 copy
Poesia 1 copy
POEZI 1 copy
Cem Sonetos de Amor (1998) 1 copy
100 POEZI 1 copy
VOLODIA TEITELBOIM (1999) 1 copy
Plenitud 1 copy
SEÇMELER 1 copy
Pablo Neruda versei (1986) 1 copy
ESTRAVAGARIO (LOSADA) (2013) 1 copy
Water 1 copy
Poezje 1 copy
diVersi 1 copy
Discursos 1 copy
Bir Yildiza Övgü (2015) 1 copy
Oder (2009) 1 copy
Selección 1 copy
Cartas a Laura (1978) 1 copy
Oriente (2004) 1 copy
Poesie 1 copy
Otro - [OUT] 1 copy
El fin del viaje (1982) 1 copy
Three Odes (2005) 1 copy
Antologia Essencial (1971) 1 copy
Cartas y poemas (1990) 1 copy
Die Gedichte (2009) 1 copy
Personliga dikter (1973) 1 copy
Poesias 1 copy
Den store sang (1974) 1 copy
Aquí estoy 1 copy
Lee Su Poesia (2019) 1 copy
Canto General (1990) 1 copy
Gedichten (1993) 1 copy
Valparaíso (1992) 1 copy
Ennå (1986) 1 copy
Poesìa 1 copy
שירים 1 copy

Associated Works

Romeo and Juliet (1599) — Translator, some editions — 27,760 copies
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology (1992) — Contributor — 384 copies
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (1995) — Contributor — 346 copies
Ten Poems to Change Your Life (2001) — Contributor — 346 copies
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993) — Contributor — 325 copies
The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry (1996) — Contributor — 302 copies
Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems (1971) — Contributor — 173 copies
The Eye of the Heart: Short Stories from Latin America (1973) — Contributor — 150 copies
The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (2012) — Contributor — 62 copies
Huellas de las literaturas hispanoamericanas (1602) — Contributor — 51 copies
The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry (2008) — Contributor — 25 copies
Ten Poems to Say Goodbye (2012) — Contributor — 24 copies
One World of Literature (1992) — Contributor — 23 copies
A Good Man: Fathers and Sons in Poetry and Prose (1993) — Contributor — 20 copies
The Chilean road to socialism (1973) — Contributor — 12 copies
THE SEVENTIES. Number 1. Spring 1972 (1972) — Contributor — 4 copies
The Sixties, Number 7, Winter 1964 (1964) — Contributor — 2 copies
Compaňero Pablo Neruda — Associated Name — 1 copy
The voice of Scotland — Contributor — 1 copy
Manpareka Kehi Kavita (2001) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Finished this a about a week ago. What a beautiful memoir. One of the refreshing aspects of it is that it's not totally linear account of Neruda's life, but more a chain of vignettes that seem to accidentally come in chronological order.
 
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lschiff | 12 other reviews | Sep 24, 2023 |
Pablo Neruda, pseudônimo de Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, nasceu a 12 de julho de 1904, em Parral, no Chile.

Ganhador do Prêmio Nobel de Literatura de 1971, sua poesia transpira, na primeira fase, o romantismo extremo de Walt Whitman. Depois vieram a experiência surrealista, influência de André Breton, e uma curta fase hermética.

Marxista e revolucionário, cantou as angústias da Espanha de 1936 e a condição dos povos latino-americanos e seus movimentos libertários. Diplomata desde jovem, foi cônsul na Birmânia (atual Mianmar), no Ceilão (atual Sri Lanka), em Cingapura, no México e na Espanha.

Com o passar dos anos, a participação política de Neruda foi cada vez maior e culminou com sua indicação à Presidência da República em 1969 - honra a que renunciou em favor de Salvador Allende. Participou da campanha da Unidade Popular que elegeu Allende no ano seguinte, quando Neruda foi nomeado embaixador do Chile na França.

Em Confesso que vivi, o poeta chileno Pablo Neruda narra desde as memórias de sua longínqua infância até o duro golpe que derrubou Salvador Allende do governo chileno. Através do apaixonante relato dos fatos mais interessantes de sua jornada, Neruda afirma que sua vida foi feita de todas as vidas: as vidas do poeta. Ele confessa: ""Do que deixei escrito nestas páginas se desprenderão sempre ― como nos arvoredos de outono e como no tempo das vinhas ― as folhas amarelas que vão morrer e as uvas que reviverão no vinho sagrado."" Seja na prosa, seja na poesia, a intensidade lírica do poeta contagia e nos arrebata com sua habilidade literária.
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archivomorero | 6 other reviews | Aug 20, 2023 |
Neruda's most famous collection, published when he was nineteen. Sometimes beautiful and surprising, sometimes loud and bombastic. The poet still seems to be at the stage in his life when love is essentially the same thing as football, a competition between young men (involving a lot of shouting and posturing) that women are meant to watch from the sidelines. The women in these poems don't speak — he prefers them when they are silent: "Me gustas quando callas porque estás como ausente" — and they don't seem to exist much except as sets of body parts, not always flatteringly described ("Se parecen tus senos a los caracoles blancos"). There's no way of knowing whether the poems are about one specific woman, a series of women, or a completely abstract female figure. Possibly the last of these, given how often he talks about dolls and statues.

But the images are always breathtaking, even though Neruda draws them from a fairly narrow range (maritime stuff like waves, nets, harbours, anchors, lighthouses, seagulls and mooring lines; bees and butterflies; ears of corn; weather).

I suspect that these are poems that grow on you when you read them aloud just for the sound of the words, without thinking too much about what they are supposed to mean.
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