Canto general / Pablo Neruda ; translated by Jack Schmitt ; introduction by Roberto González Echevarría.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973.

Contributor:

Schmitt, Jack, 1932-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Latin American literature and culture (Berkeley, Calif.) ; 7.

Latin American literature and culture ; v. 7

Standardized Title:

Canto general. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

America--Poetry.

America.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

50th anniversary edition, 50th anniversary paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000.

Summary:

"Neruda was a kind of King Midas. Everything he touched turned to poetry", says Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 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.

Notes:

"A Centennial book"--Prelim. leaf.

"A Wake Forest studium book"--T.p. verso.

Originally published in 1990.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-402).

ISBN:

0520227093

OCLC:

45095554