Canto General
by Pablo Neruda
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Pablo Neruda's epic poem Canto General is a prodigious work that scrolls out like the chronicle of a journey through the Americas, as the poet strives to provide a unifying vision of reality. Neruda's most audacious and ambitious achievement, Canto General locates and reveals communal sources of strength in the place of our origin, land of our ancestors. The poet depicts history as a vast, continuous struggle against oppression. Constructed in fifteen parts, and made up of more than fifteen show more thousand lines, Canto General unfolds in successive epochs, celebrating the flora and fauna and geology of Neruda's homeland and recounting episodes in the lives of explorers and conquistadors, emperors and dictators, revolutionaries and everyday laborers.-- show lessTags
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Me encanto de este libro que no te deja hacer conclusiones ni adelantarte a lo que va a suceder. Siempre hay un giro y algo inesperado. Otra excelente recomendaciĂłn de mi amiga Caro Pi.
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Canto Geral tornou-se um clássico nĂŁo sĂł da literatura hispano-americana mas tambĂ©m da poesia universal do sĂ©c. xx, chamado pelo prĂłprio Neruda, em Confesso que Vivi, sua obra memorialĂstica, de? Meu livro mais importante?. Canto Geral Ă© uma obra atĂpica e representa uma reviravolta na poĂ©tica de Pablo Neruda. O livro foi escrito em circunstâncias adversas, quando Neruda, por ser membro do Partido Comunista, sofria forte perseguição pela polĂcia do presidente chileno González Videla, sendo obrigado a transpor a Cordilheira dos Andes e refugiar-se no exterior. Lançado em 1950, o livro teve duas primeiras edições quase idĂŞnticas: uma oficial, e pĂşblica, no MĂ©xico, e outra, clandestina, no Chile. Canto Geral, obra de show more caráter enciclopĂ©dico, reĂşne os mais variados temas, gĂŞneros e tĂ©cnicas, dividindo-se em 15 seções e 231 poemas. O livro nasceu marcado pelo sofrimento, tendo o poeta testemunhado, por intermĂ©dio dele, o seu grande amor tanto pelo Chile e por seu povo, quanto pelos povos oprimidos da AmĂ©rica Latina. Ă© uma obra que une o combate e a ternura. show less
Mar 2, 2023Portuguese (Brazil)
> CHANT GÉNÉRAL, par Pablo Neruda. — C'est durant un peu plus d'un an de vie secrète, changeant souvent de domicile et de zones de refuge que Neruda composa le Chant général. Prévu initialement comme un chant au Chili, le projet prit vite des dimensions gigantesques pour constituer le sommet poétique qui allait imposer au monde le génie de Pablo Neruda.
-- Neruda dit de son livre : "Nous sommes les chroniqueurs d'une naissance retardée. Retardée par le féodalisme, par la stagnation, par la faim. Il ne s'agit pas seulement de préserver notre culture, mais de la livrer à toutes nos forces, de la nourrir et de lui permettre de fleurir." Comprendre l'Amérique de l'époque de la "guerre froide", l'Amérique dans ses show more diversités et ses contradictions nous guide sur un terrain connu et contemporain. Et qu'est-ce qui a tant changé entre hier et aujourd'hui et qui ne sera pas une référence pour demain ?
—Carole Huynh Guay (ICI.Radio-Canada.ca) show less
-- Neruda dit de son livre : "Nous sommes les chroniqueurs d'une naissance retardée. Retardée par le féodalisme, par la stagnation, par la faim. Il ne s'agit pas seulement de préserver notre culture, mais de la livrer à toutes nos forces, de la nourrir et de lui permettre de fleurir." Comprendre l'Amérique de l'époque de la "guerre froide", l'Amérique dans ses show more diversités et ses contradictions nous guide sur un terrain connu et contemporain. Et qu'est-ce qui a tant changé entre hier et aujourd'hui et qui ne sera pas une référence pour demain ?
—Carole Huynh Guay (ICI.Radio-Canada.ca) show less
Dec 29, 2018 (Edited)French
en este libro pablo neruda le canta a la tierra y a su amada Chile, de la que fue exiliado.
Jun 25, 2007Spanish
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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
- Canto General
- Original title
- Canto General
- Original publication date
- 1950
- Important places
- Chile
- First words*
- AMOR
AMÉRICA
(1400)
Antes de la peluca y la casaca
fueron los rĂos, rĂos arteriales:
fueron las cordilleras, en cuyo onda raĂda
el condĂłr o la nieve parecĂan inmĂłviles:
fue la humedad y la espe... (show all)sura, el trueno
sin nombre todavĂa, las pampas planetarias. - Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)AsĂ termino este libro, aquĂ dejo
mi Canto general escrito
en la persecucĂon, cantando bajo
las alas clandestinas de mi patria.
Hoy 5 de febrero, en este año
de 1949, en Chile, en «Godomar
de Chena», algunos meses antes
de los cuarentes y cinco años de mi edad.
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