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. 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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