Residence on Earth
by Pablo Neruda
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In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth, New Directions is pleased to announce the reissue of a classic work in a timeless translation by Donald D. Walsh and fully bilingual.Residence on Earth is perhaps Neruda's greatest work. Upon its publication in 1973, this bilingual publication instantly became "a revolution... a classic by which masterpieces are judged" (Review). "InResidence on Earth," wrote Amado Alonso, "the tornado of fury will no longer pass without show more lingering, because it will be identified with [Neruda's] heart." show lessTags
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Residence on Earth is a stimulating and earthy collection of Pablo Neruda's poetry from the 1930s and 40s. It is a mix of the personal and the natural (which he marries exceptionally) and the political (which are a bit dated with their communistic ideals, though still interesting). I've long since learned that the best way to read Neruda is to just let the poems flow over you like a river, in keeping with the Chilean poet's irrepressible ability for making ordinary natural occurrences and personal emotions seem intoxicatingly sensual.
Favourites include 'The Dawn's Debility', 'Madrigal Written in Winter', 'The Ghost of the Cargo Boat', 'Barcarole', 'Meeting Under New Flags' and 'Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia'.
Favourites include 'The Dawn's Debility', 'Madrigal Written in Winter', 'The Ghost of the Cargo Boat', 'Barcarole', 'Meeting Under New Flags' and 'Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia'.
Beauty, complexity, home. Neruda knows how to create all this in words makeing this a book I frequently go to when I need to feel the warmth of beauty and home.
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Obra poética fundamental de Pablo Neruda que expresa angustia existencial, soledad y una visión intensa del mundo mediante un lenguaje innovador y simbólico.
Apr 27, 2026Spanish
Con un tiraje de 100 ejemplares firmados por Pablo Neruda, en 1933 la editorial Nascimiento publicó la primera edición de Residencia en la tierra. Este libro incluyó poemas escritos durante los años 1925 y 1931, entre ellos "Arte poética". Esta edición fue conocida como Primera Residencia.
A esta obra le sucedió la elaboración y publicación de dos libros: Segunda Residencia, texto que incorpora a la edición original nueve poemas escritos entre 1931 y 1935, y finalmente Tercera Residencia publicada en 1947, con escritos durante 1935 y 1945.
Estas Residencias se elaboraron a lo largo del periplo de Neruda por distintos lugares del mundo: Chile, Argentina, algunas colonias europeas del Lejano Oriente y España, que de acuerdo a sus show more crÃticos le otorgó a su poesÃa una mezcla de lo local con lo remoto, de lo exótico y lo nativo, de lo propio y de lo foráneo.
Residencia en la tierra ha sido considerada por los cÃrculos literarios como una obra decisiva en la poesÃa nerudiana, que impactó o influyó a los poetas de la segunda mitad siglo pasado como Gonzalo Rojas, show less
A esta obra le sucedió la elaboración y publicación de dos libros: Segunda Residencia, texto que incorpora a la edición original nueve poemas escritos entre 1931 y 1935, y finalmente Tercera Residencia publicada en 1947, con escritos durante 1935 y 1945.
Estas Residencias se elaboraron a lo largo del periplo de Neruda por distintos lugares del mundo: Chile, Argentina, algunas colonias europeas del Lejano Oriente y España, que de acuerdo a sus show more crÃticos le otorgó a su poesÃa una mezcla de lo local con lo remoto, de lo exótico y lo nativo, de lo propio y de lo foráneo.
Residencia en la tierra ha sido considerada por los cÃrculos literarios como una obra decisiva en la poesÃa nerudiana, que impactó o influyó a los poetas de la segunda mitad siglo pasado como Gonzalo Rojas, show less
Feb 10, 2023Spanish
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Pablo Neruda was born Ricardo Eliecer Neftalà 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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- Canonical title
- Residence on Earth
- Original title
- Residencia en la Tierra
- Original publication date
- 1935
- Original language*
- Español
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