Passions and Impressions

Pablo Neruda is known first as a poet but the prose pieces in this collection reflect the enormous hunger he demonstrated throughout his career for new modes of expression new adventures new challenges. Passions and Impressions is both a sequel to and an enlargement of Neruda''s Memoirs recording a lifetime of travel of friendships and enmities of exile and homecoming of loss and discovery and of history both public and personal. Above all it is a testament to Neruda''s love for Chile-for its citizens its flora and fauna its national identity. His abiding devotion pervades these notes on a life fully lived.