Pablo Neruda (19041973) is one of Latin Americas best known poets, and
perhaps its most controversial. He is adored by readers for the passionate
love lyrics penned during his early years in his native Chile, and respected by
fellow poets and literary critics for the dark, hypnotic verses he composed
during his later, lonely years as a diplomat based in the Far East. Pablo Neruda paints a fascinating, if not always flattering, picture of one of
the most prodigiously gifted but also one of the most equivocal literary figures
of the twentieth century.
