Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life

By Adam Feinstein

Book Overview

The first comprehensive English-language biography of Pablo Neruda, one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. Pablo Neruda, the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean writer, was born into a poor... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582345945
• ISBN13: 9781582345949
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 510 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

An Objective Biography

This is a well written book covering Neruda's life en total without pulling any punches regarding his idiosyncracies. Fascinating accounts of his travels, personal life, and political exile.

Poetic Justice

The biography is excellent. All the gore and the glory of a magnificent poet, a magnificent poet. So impressed was I, that while having innumerable books by Neruda, and his posthumously published memoirs, I still went out and obtained Obras Completas through a bookstore in Madrid. I have summered on Isla Negra and had the good fortune of meeting Matilde. The author does an outstanding job of giving us the most objective portrait...

fine biography of a great poet

More than thirty years ago, I gave a copy of Neruda's "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair to the woman who would later become my wife. All these years later, I still read Neruda's poems aloud to her, and I am still nourished in the autumn of my own life by the rich array of poetry that this great writer produced from his adolescence to old age. Adam Feinstein produces a loving, yet unflinching, portrait of Neruda. Here...

Candid, well researched.... and a riveting read.

Reviewer: A reader from London, UK United Kingdom Not many writers lead such a colourful life as Neruda. The Chilean Nobel prize winner was not only a diplomat, a world class poet, and a lover of many women--- he had three wives and many mistresses---he was also a supporter of the Republican cause in Spain, responsible for rescuing many of Franco's enemies, and a staunch left-winger who wanted to write for the many rather...

A wonder filled life of a very human poet

Pablo Neruda, of whom Garcia` marquez has called"the greatest poet of the 20th century-in any language",has never had a full length biography in english.Until now.the man Neruda that Mr.Feinstein portrays is an often selfish,self absorbed genuis,who invented his own myth and ferociously hung on to it until his death,a couple of weeks after the murderous coup that took the life and lifeblood of his beloved Chile,and installed...