by Pablo Neruda · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432207730
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«Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada» is Pablo Neruda's poetry collection, published by Seix Barral in paperback (76 pages, in Spanish).
Twenty love compositions and a final song that gives the volume its title. The poetic voice explores love in its fullness, desire, fusion with nature, and the sadness of absence, with sensual, marine, and nocturnal imagery. The final song condenses the desperation and the memory of what is lost.
The work was originally published in 1924. This 1999 edition is part of Seix Barral's Biblioteca Breve collection and presents the text in Spanish.
For readers of poetry and Latin American literature, as well as for those approaching Pablo Neruda's work for the first time.
Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924).
