Book Details
Format
eBook
Pages
423
Language
English
Published
Sep 23, 2000
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520926331
ISBN-13
9780520926332
Description
Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Neruda was a kind of King Midas. Everything he touched turned to poetry, says Gabriel Garc a M rquez, who also considers the Chilean Nobel laureate "the greatest poet of the twentieth century, in any language." [The Fragrance of Guava, 1983]. The "Canto General, " thought by many of Neruda's most prominent critics to be the poet's masterpiece, is the stunning epic of an entire continent and its people. The "Canto" speaks of the destiny of Latin American peoples and the life of the poet himself. Without question, this is one of the most important and powerful long poems written in the modern period.
Genres
Poetry