Memoirs / Pablo Neruda; translated from the Spanish by Hardie St. Martin.

Translation of Confieso que he vivido.

Autobiography.

Includes index.

The country boy --Lost in the city --The roads of the world --Luminous solitude --Spain in my heart --I went out to look for the fallen --Mexico, blossoming and thorny --My country in darkness --Beginning and end of exile --Voyage and homecoming --Poetry is an occupation --Cruel, beloved homeland.

Memoirs is as full of Neruda's passionate, volatile and profoundly generous personality as lovers of his poetry would expect. Lorca, Vallejo, Picasso, Gandhi, Mao Tse-tung, Castro and Allende all appear here too, making Neruda's a life story of truly universal reach and significance, as well as the richest account we have of Latin American history, politics, art and literature.