In his uniquely expressive prose, Neruda not only explains his views on poetry and describes the circumstances that inspired many of his poems, but he creates a revealing record of his life as a poet, a patriot, and one of the twentieth century's true men of conscience. The objectification of female body is often criticized in his poems. He dedicated his many poems to the women he ever loved, but most of them are seen through male gaze. Some of the poems Neruda wrote at that time are to be found in his first published book: Crepusculario (1923). There are many men in Nerudas poems like brakemen, fishermen, woodcutter and miners who possess masculinist anger for rebellion and feminine pain for lost love. Many of the century's most important literary and artistic figures were Neruda's friends, and figure in his memoirs-Garcia Lorca, Aragon, Picasso, and Rivera, among them-and also such political leaders as Gandhi, Nehru, Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara. In 1920, he became a contributor to the literary journal Selva Austral under the pen name of Pablo Neruda, which he adopted in memory of the Czechoslovak poet Jan Neruda (1834-1891). The final section of the memoirs was written after the coup in 1972 that overthrew Neruda's friend Salvador Allende. After a year in hiding, he escaped on horseback over the Andes and then to Europe his travels took him to Russia, Eastern Europe, and China before he was finally able to return home in 1952. Neruda, a Communist, was driven from his senate seat in 1948, and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
In these memoirs he retraces his bohemian student years in Santiago his sojourns as Chilean consul in Burma, Ceylon, and Java, in Spain during the civil war, and in Mexico and his service as a Chilean senator. The south of Chile was a frontier wilderness when Pablo Neruda was born in 1904. The classic and deeply moving memoir by Pablo Neruda, the most widely read political poet of our time and winner of the Nobel Prize
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