Antologia general. Pablo Neruda

For devotees of Pablo Neruda, this 832-page collection of the Chilean writer's poetry, prose, and letters is the ultimate celebration of the Nobel Prize winner. Arranged chronologically, Antologia general enables readers to witness the literary development of the man Gabriel Garcia Márquez called "the great poet of the twentieth century in any language." This authoritative commemorative edition was commissioned by the Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Spanish Language Academies. Editor's recommendation.

When presenting the legendary Chilean poet Pablo Neruda with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, Karl Ragnar Gierow of the Swedish Academy proclaimed, "Neruda is like catching a condor with a butterfly net. Neruda, in a nutshell, is an unreasonable proposition: the kernel bursts the shell."