Mark Eisner

Neruda (eBook, ePUB)

The Biography of a Poet

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Finalist for the PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography

The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American history

Few poets have captured the global imagination like Pablo Neruda. In his native Chile, across Latin America, and in many other parts of the world, his name and legacy have become almost synonymous with liberation movements, and with the language of erotic love.

Neruda: The Poet's Calling is the product of fifteen years of research by Mark Eisner, writer, translator, and documentary filmmaker. The book vividly depicts Neruda's monumental life, potent verse, and ardent belief in the poet's obligation to use poetry for social good. It braids together three major strands of Neruda's lifehis world-revered poetry; his political engagement; and his tumultuous, even controversial, personal lifeforming a single cohesive narrative of intimacy and breadth.

The fascinating events of Neruda's life are interspersed with Eisner's thoughtful examinations of the poems, both as works of art in their own right and as mirrors of Neruda's life and times. The result is a book that animates Neruda's riveting story in a new wayone that offers a compelling narrative version of Neruda's life and work, undergirded by exhaustive research, yet designed to bring this colossal literary figure to a broader audience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062694225
• Artikelnr.: 51999081

Autorenporträt

Mark Eisner has spent most of the past two decades working on projects related to Pablo Neruda. He conceived, edited, and was a principal translator of The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems (City Lights, 2004). He wrote the introduction to City Lights' first-ever English translation of Neruda's Venture of the Infinite Man, a project he developed. He is producing a documentary on Neruda, with support from Latino Public Broadcasting. An initial version, narrated by Isabel Allende, won the Latin American Studies Association Award of Merit.

Rezensionen

"Perceptive readings of Neruda's poems are contextualized by an absorbing historical, cultural, and political chronology." Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval and Legendary