Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda

This book is an anthology of selected quotes from Pablo Neruda and facts selected by Blago Kirov about Pablo Neruda. It grants Neruda's bright reflections on subjects ranging from Love and Sea to Poetry and Dreams; also, the book shows the personality of Pablo Neruda into a different light. Pablo Neruda is the pseudonym of Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (1904 - 1973). He was a Chilean poet, considered among the most outstanding and influential writer of his century; "the greatest artist of the 20th century in any language," according to Gabriel García Márquez. Among his multiple recognitions, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971 and an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford are outstanding. "No one poet of the Western hemisphere of our century admits comparison with him," has written the literary critic Harold Bloom. He considers him one of the twenty-six leading authors of the canon of western literature of all times. Pablo Neruda was a prominent political activist, senator, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, short-listed for the presidency of his country, and ambassador to France. After the military coup on September 11, his health worsened, and on September 19 he was urgently transferred from his home in Isla Negra to Santiago. He died of prostate cancer on September 23 at 22.30 at the Santa María Clinic. At his death, Pablo Neruda left 34 published books of essays, poems, and drama as well as 8 more volumes of poetry and a memoir which he had hoped to publish on his 70th birthday.