Isla Negra: A Notebook / A Bilingual Edition

Neruda, Pablo

ISBN 10: 0374517347 / ISBN 13: 9780374517342

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (edition ), 1982

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The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Isla Negra: A Notebook / A Bilingual Edition
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (edition )
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374517347
• ISBN 13: 9780374517342
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fair

About this title

Synopsis

Reflective later poems of the fiery, Nobel-Prize winning Chilean poet, presented here with the English translations and original Spanish side-by-side on facing pages.

In the over one hundred poems contained in Isla Negra, Pablo Neruda fashioned a kind of poetic autobiography in which he set out to explore and gather the various "lives" or "selves" he had left behind him in the huge span of his writing existence. Written in his "autumnal" period, from the vantage point of Isla Negra, the small village on the Pacific coast of Chile which he came to regard as the center of his world, the book reads like a series of notes in which present and past interact, and is perhaps the most self-confronting of all his collections.

About the Author

Pablo Neruda (1904-73), one of the renowned poets of the twentieth century, was born in Farral, Chile. He shared the World Peace Prize with Paul Robeson and Pablo Picasso in 1950, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971. His books include Residence on Earth, Canto General, Extravagaria, and Isla Negra.