Isla Negra: A Notebook
by Pablo Neruda
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Few writers are as integrally bound to a place as Pablo Neruda was to the landscape of Isla Negra on Chile's coast. From his arrival there in the late 1930s to his death in 1973, Neruda captured Isla Negra in images fundamental to an understanding of his work. It was, according to Martin Espada, at Isla Negra where Neruda "in the company of his muse, walked alongside the source of his most lyrical inspiration, the sea...and discovered a new way of seeing, as the ocean became a livingmetaphor show more for the infinite riches of the world." The poems, selected from three volumes of Neruda's work, are presented with photographs of Neruda and his house in an attractive gift format. Nobel Prize-winning poetPablo Neruda , who died in 1973, remains one of the most influential voices in world literature. show lessTags
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Although I'd like to, I can't recommend this collection unreservedly. Maybe if I knew more about Neruda's background or Chilean history, it would resonate more deeply with me, but at times I found these works overblown and clumsy. Alastair Reid's translation, however, is excellent and the layout of this bilingual edition is great for those like me who have only passable Spanish.
In his afterword to this edition, Enrico Mario Santí detects a ‘gradual fraying away of the biographical thread’ throughout the five books presented here, and a ‘shedding [of] the rhetoric of autobiography for the present meditations of the still changing poet’. Indeed the last book, Sonata crítica, I found brilliant (or brilliant in parts). My show more favourites include: 'Tal vaz tenemos tiempo' (Maybe we have time); the Kafkaesque 'El largo día jueves' (The long day called Thursday); and the visceral and whimsical 'Atención al mercado' (Look to the market).
For a contemporary overview in Spanish (including detail on all five books) see the review by Emir Rodríguez Monegal at http://tinyurl.com/gdh8h. show less
In his afterword to this edition, Enrico Mario Santí detects a ‘gradual fraying away of the biographical thread’ throughout the five books presented here, and a ‘shedding [of] the rhetoric of autobiography for the present meditations of the still changing poet’. Indeed the last book, Sonata crítica, I found brilliant (or brilliant in parts). My show more favourites include: 'Tal vaz tenemos tiempo' (Maybe we have time); the Kafkaesque 'El largo día jueves' (The long day called Thursday); and the visceral and whimsical 'Atención al mercado' (Look to the market).
For a contemporary overview in Spanish (including detail on all five books) see the review by Emir Rodríguez Monegal at http://tinyurl.com/gdh8h. show less
Entre el sentimiento y la honda reflexión, estos poemas de 1964 causan profundo impacto, y no evitan, además, la maravillosa declaración de principios del artista y el hombre.
Publicada cuando el poeta contaba sesenta años, estamos ante la obra cumbre de la madurez poética de Neruda. En ella, a modo de autobiografía poética, el autor consigue transformar sus recuerdos en versos luminosos, brillantes y certeros de un lirismo inigualable.
Publicada cuando el poeta contaba sesenta años, estamos ante la obra cumbre de la madurez poética de Neruda. En ella, a modo de autobiografía poética, el autor consigue transformar sus recuerdos en versos luminosos, brillantes y certeros de un lirismo inigualable.
Mar 23, 2011Spanish
> Pablo NERUDA, Mémorial de l'Ile Noire, traduit par Claude Courfon (Gallimard) ;
Id., Résidence sur la terre, traduit par Guy Suarès (Gallimard)
Se reporter au compte rendu de Christian AUDEJEAN
In: Revue Esprit Nouvelle Série, No. 393 (6) (Juin 1970), pp. 1204-1206… ; (en ligne),
URL : https://esprit.presse.fr/article/christian-audejean/pablo-neruda-residence-sur-l...
Id., Résidence sur la terre, traduit par Guy Suarès (Gallimard)
Se reporter au compte rendu de Christian AUDEJEAN
In: Revue Esprit Nouvelle Série, No. 393 (6) (Juin 1970), pp. 1204-1206… ; (en ligne),
URL : https://esprit.presse.fr/article/christian-audejean/pablo-neruda-residence-sur-l...
Oct 2, 2020 (Edited)French
Estamos ante la obra que subraya la madurez poetica de pablo Neruda. Publocada cuando el poeta contaba sesenta años de edad.
Jun 25, 2007Spanish
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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 Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of show more 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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- Isla Negra: A Notebook
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- Memorial de Isla Negra
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- 1964
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