About the Book: Complete Memoirs: Expanded Edition
The classic memoir of the Nobel Prizewinning poet, now expanded with newly
discovered material Southern Chile was an open frontier when the beloved poet
Pablo Neruda was born there in 1904. A motherless, pensive child in the wild, he
began writing poems long before quitting the countryside for Santiago, where he
spent his bohemian student years. From there, his memoir follows his travels as
a globetrotting Chilean consul?including a stint in Spain during its civil war,
and in Mexico, where he attracted attention for aiding a man suspected of
conspiring to assassinate Leon Trotsky?and his short-lived service as