Book : Extravagaria A Bilingual Edition - Pablo Neruda

-Titulo Original : Extravagaria A Bilingual Edition

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Farrar, Straus And Giroux

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Review “A smart little book that one can happily welcome into the family and allow to start growing old.” Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times Reflective later poems of the fiery, Nobel-Prize winning Chilean poet, with English translations and the original Spanish side-by-side on facing pages.While things are settling down,here Ive left my testament,my shifting extravagaria,so whoever goes on reading itwill never take in anythingexcept the constant movingof a clear and bewildered man,a man rainy and happy,lively and autumn-minded.--from Autumn testamentExtravagaria marks an important stage in Nerudas progress as a poet. The book was written just after he had returned to Chile after many wanderings and moved to his beloved Isla Negra on the Pacific coast. The collection celebrates this coming to rest, this rediscovery of the sea and the land, and the evolution of a a lyric poetry that is decidedly more personal than Nerudas earlier work. Written in what he called his autumnal period, the sixty-eight poems range from the wistful to the exultant, combining psalm and speculation, meditation and humorous aside. 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 onEarth, Canto General, Extravagaria, and Isla Negra.