The Americas, January 1st, 2005
Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life, by Adam Feinstein. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004.
Pablo Neruda (1904-73) burst onto the literary scene when he was only twenty with his Veinte poemas de amor y uria canción desesperada [Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair ] and became one of the most beloved Latin American poets of all time, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Published to coincide with the centennial of his birth, Adam Feinstein's excellent new biography tells Neruda's story with verve and precision, yet without getting bogged down in minutiae.
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