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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
emotional
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
I was thoroughly impressed with Neruda. He totally lived up to all the hype surrounding him. That being said, I had no idea what I was in for when I started reading this book. I thought he wrote mainly love poems, but even though he does have several love poems in this collection, he blew my mind with some of his more edgy political poems, and his surreal poems. This is a great collection of poems, published by city lights (so you know it's good), and well worth the read.
Even though his writing is beautiful, Neruda is not my cup of tea. He writes too many melancholy love poems for me.
Hmmm...Pablo Neruda und Miguel Angel Asturias bereisten Ungarn und schreiben in diesem Buch darüber. Dabei stellt es eine Ansammlung von kurzen Artikeln oder Gedichten dar, die sehr schön und kreativ illustriert sind. Und trotzdem erschloss sich mir bis zuletzt der Sinn dieses Buches nicht - ja, Ungarn ist ein schönes Land mit gutem Essen, gutem Wein und freundlichen Menschen, das wusste ich bereits aus eigener Erfahrung. Ich hätte gerne etwas in Form eines poetischen Reiseberichtes gelesen oder ein paar Gerichte näher kennengelernt und vielleicht auch nachgekocht - aber erwartet haben mich Namen von Restaurants, Aufzählungen von Gerichten und äußerst wenig Persönliches, wobei doch gerade das bei diesen beiden Reisenden so interessant gewesen wäre...schade.
A lovely collection of just the right size, spanning the breadth of Neruda's works and including both the love poems and the political ones. I appreciate having the original works alongside the translations though I do not speak Spanish, for there is also joy to be found in the poems as they originally sounded. I greatly prefer some of the translations included here to their alternatives, and the curatorial aspect of such compilations is always appreciated.
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