by Pablo Neruda
Heine, Heinrich
Hernández (family)
Hernández, Miguel
Herrera (general)
Herrera Petere, José
Herrera y Reissig, Julio
Hertz (German consul)
Hikmet, Nazim
Hinojosa, Álvaro
Hita, Archpriest of (Juan Ruiz)
Hitler, Adolf
Ho Chi Minh
Hölderlin, Friedrich
Hollander, Carlos
Hugo, Victor
Huidobro, Vicente
Huxley, Aldous
Huxley, Julian
Ibarra, Joaquín
Ibsen, Henrik
Iglesias (tennis champion)
Ilyés, Gyulla
Indy, Vincent d’
Jammes, Francis
Jarpa, Sergio Onofre
Jason (in Bible)
Jebeleanu, Eugen
Jiménez, Juan Ramón
Joliot-Curie, Frédéric
Joyce, James
József, Attila
Juanito (Chilean peasant boy)
Khrushchev, Nikita
Kipling, Rudyard
Kiria (mongoose)
Kirsanov, Semyon
Kisch, Egon Erwin
Korneichuk, Alexander
Kruzi
Kuo Mo-jo
Kutvalek
Labarca, Santiago
Lacasa, Luis
Lafertte, Elías
Laforgue, Jules
Lagerlöf, Selma
Lago, Tomás
Lange, Norah
Larra, Raúl
Larraín, Sergio
Larrazábal, Wolfgang
Lautréamont, see Ducasse, Isidore
Laval, Pierre
Lawrence, D. H.
Legarreta (Neruda pseudonym)
Lehmbruck, Wilhelm
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
León, María Teresa
Leopardi, Giacomo
Levi, Carlo
Li (interpreter)
Litvinov, Maxim Maximovich
López, Alfonso
Lorca, see García Lorca, Federico
Losada, Gonzalo
Loyola, Hernán
Lucretius
Luis de Granada (Fray)
Luis de León (Fray)
Lundkvist, Artur
Machado, Antonio
Machado, Gerardo
Machado, Manuel
Maigret, Inspector Jules (fictional character)
Malaparte, Curzio
Mallarmé, Stéphane
Mallo, Maruja
Malraux, André
Mann, Thomas
Manrique, Jorge
Mansilla (Chilean consul)
Mao Tse-tung
Mao Tung
Maqueira, Tulio
Marc, Franz
Marcenac, Jean
Marín, Arellano
Marín, Juan
Marinello, Juan
Maritain, Jacques
Mason, Carlos
Mason, Micaela Candia
Matisse, Henri
Matta, Roberto
Maugham, W. Somerset
Mauny, Count de
Maura, Duke of
Maura Gamazo, Gabriel, see Maura, Duke of
Mayakovsky, Vladimir
Medioni, Gilbert
Melgarejo, Mariano
Mella, Julio Antonio
Membrives, Lola
Menéndez (family)
Mery, Hernán
Meza Fuentes, Roberto
Michelangelo
Mikoyan, Anastas
Miller, Arthur
Miranda, Francisco de
Mistral, Gabriela
Modotti, Tina
Molière
Molina Núñez, Julio
Molotov, Vyachelav
Monge (railway worker)
Montagnana, Mario
Montes (family)
Moore, George
Moore, Marianne
Mora, Constancia de la
Morante, Elsa
Moravia, Alberto
Moreno Villa, José
Morla Lynch, Carlos
Munthe, Axel
Murga, Romeo
Napoleon Bonaparte
Negrín, Juan
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Nehru, Motilal
Neira (publisher)
Neruda, Matilde (wife), see Urrutia, Matilde
Nerval, Gérard de
Niemoeller, Martin
Nixon, Richard
Noah (in Bible)
Novoa
Ocampo, Victoria
O’Higgins, Bernardo
Oliver, María Rosa
Orozco, José Clemente
Ortega, Abraham
Ospovat, Lev
Ossietzky, Carl von
Otero, Lisandro
Otero Silva, Miguel
Ovid
Oyarzún, Aliro
Pacheco, Horacio
Panza, Sancho (fictional character)
Pascal (priest)
Pasternak, Boris
Patsy
Paz, Octavio
Pérez Jiménez, Marcos
Pérez Rulfo (commandant)
Perón, Eva (“Evita”)
Perón, Juan
Peter the Great (Pyotr Alekseevich)
Petöfi, Sándor
Petrarca, Francesco (“Petrarch”)
Picasso, Pablo
Poe, Edgar Allan
Poliziano, Angelo
Pound, Ezra
Powers (Buddhist theologian)
Powers, Francis Gary
Praxiteles
Prestes, Leocadia
Prestes, Luis Carlos
Prieto, Miguel
Primo de Rivera, José Antonio
Primo de Rivera, Miguel
Proust, Marcel
Pushkin, Alexander
Quasimodo, Salvatore
Quevedo, Francisco de
Quixote, Don (Alonso Quixano) (fictional character)
Rabelais, François
Raman, Chandrasekhara
Ramírez, Pedrito
Rango (orangutan)
Rapín, Rafael
Recabarren, Luis Emilio
Redl, Alfred (colonel)
Rejano, Juan
Retamar, see Fernández Retamar, Roberto
Reverdy, Pierre
Reyes, Abadías
Reyes, Alfonso
Reyes, Amós
Reyes, Joel
Reyes, José Angel
Reyes, José del Carmen (father)
Reyes, Laura
Reyes, Oseas
Reyes, Rodolfo
Ricci, Paolo
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Rimbaud, Arthur
Rimbaud, Isabelle
Rivera, Diego
Robeson, Paul
Rocambole (fictional character)
Roces, Wenceslao
Rodríguez, Pepe
Rodríguez Luna, Antonio
Rodríguez Marín, F.
Rodríguez Monegal, Emir
Rodríguez Rapún, Rafael, see Rapín, Rafael
Rojas, Manuel
Rojas Giménez, Alberto
Rojas Giménez, Rosita
Romero, Elvio
Rommel, Erwin
Ronsard, Pierre de
Rosenberg, Ethel and Julius
Rothschild, Alphonse de
Ruiz, Juan (Archpriest of Hita)
Rulfo, Juan
Sabat Ercasty, Carlos
Sábato, Ernesto
Saint-Saëns, Camille
Salazar, Antonio
Salgari, Emilio
Salinas, Pedro
Sánchez, Alberto
Sánchez, Celia
Sandino, Augusto César
San Martín, José Francisco de
Santa Cruz, Domingo
Savich, Ovadi
Schneider, René
Schubert, Franz
Schweitzer, Daniel
Seferis, George
Seghers, Anna
Segura Castro, Óscar
Sepúlveda, Tristan
Serrano Plaja, Arturo
Shakespeare, William
Shostakovich, Dimitri
Siao Emi
Silva, José Asunción
Simenon, Georges
Simonov, Konstantin
Siqueiros, David Alfaro
Siqueiros, Jesús
Sitwell, Edith
Sobrino, Eladio
Somlyó, György
Somoza, Anastasio
Soong Ch’ing-ling
Soustelle, Jacques
Spender, Stephen
Stalin, Joseph
Stendhal
Streicher, Julius
Sue, Eugène
Sun Yat-sen
Supervielle, Jules
Swift, Jonathan
Tagore, Rabindranath
Talvande, Maurice, see Mauny, Count de
Tamayo, Rufino
Tchaikovsky, Peter Illich
Theotokópoulos, Doménikos (“El Greco”)
Thielman, María
Thomas, Dylan
Tikhonov, Nikolai
Ting Ling
Titov, Gherman
Tolstoy, Leo
Tomic, Radomiro
Torre, Carlos de la
Triolet, Elsa
Tristan, Flora
Trotsky, Leon
Trujillo, Rafael
Twain, Mark
Ubico, Jorge
Unamuno, Miguel de
Urrutia, Matilde (wife)
Valdivia, Alberto
Valéry, Paul
Valle, Rosamel del
Valle-Inclán, Ramón del
Vallejo, César
Vargas, Getulio
Vargas Llosa, Mario
Vargas Vila, José María
Vasallo, Carlos
Vega, Lope de
Velázquez, Diego
Venturelli, José
Verdi, Giuseppe
Verne, Jules
Vial, Sarita
Viaux (colonel)
Vicuña, Carlos
Vidali, Vittorio (“Commandant Carlos”)
Vignole, Omar
Villar, Amado
Vishinsky, Andrei
Wagner, Richard
Wendt, Lionel
Whitman, Walt
Wilson, Blanca
Windsor, Duke of (Edward VIII)
Winter, Augusto
Winzer
Woolf, Leonard
Woolf, Virginia
Yáñez, Mina
Yáñez, Pilo (Juan Emar)
Yeats, William Butler
Yegulev, Sacha (fictional character)
Yufu San
Zaldívar, Andrés
Zapata, Emiliano
Zhdanov, Andrei
Zweig, Arnold
ALSO BY PABLO NERUDA
The Heights of Macchu Picchu
Selected Poems: A Bilingual Edition
The Captain’s Verses
Residence on Earth
Extravagaria
Selected Poems
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Still Another Day
The Separate Rose
100 Love Sonnets
Winter Garden
The Sea and the Bells
The Yellow Heart
Stones of the Sky
Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda
Canto General
The Book of Questions
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poems of the Sea
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
Intimacies: Poems of Love
The Hands of Day
All the Odes
Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda
Venture of the Infinite Man
Book of Twilight
A Note About the Author
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973), one of the most renowned poets of the twentieth century, was born in Parral, Chile. He shared the International Peace Prize with Paul Robeson and Pablo Picasso in 1950, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971. His books include Residence on Earth, Canto General, Extravagaria, and Isla Negra. You can sign up for email updates here.
A Note About the Translators
Hardie St. Martin translated work by Vicente Aleixandre, Roque Dalton, Enrique Lihn, Nicanor Parra, Luisa Valenzuela, and others. He was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1965, a PEN Translation Prize, and an ALTA Award for excellence in editing and translation. His anthology of Spanish poetry, Roots and Wings, is a literary landmark. He died on September 3, 2007.
Adrian Nathan West is the author of The Aesthetics of Degradation. He is a contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and the Literary Review; his essays, short fiction, and translations have also appeared in The New York Review of Books, McSweeney’s, the London Review of Books, and other publications. He has translated books from the German, Catalan, Spanish, and French by authors such as Josef Winkler, Pere Gimferrer, and Marianne Fritz.
Thank you for buying this
Farrar, Straus and Giroux ebook.
To receive special offers, bonus content,
and info on new releases and other great reads,
sign up for our newsletters.
Or visit us online at
us.macmillan.com/newslettersignup
For email updates on the author, click here.
Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
JOURNEY THROUGH MY POETRY
1. THE COUNTRY BOY
2. LOST IN THE CITY
3. THE ROADS OF THE WORLD
4. LUMINOUS SOLITUDE
5. SPAIN IN MY HEART
6. I WENT OUT TO LOOK FOR THE FALLEN
7. MEXICO, BLOSSOMING AND THORNY
8. MY COUNTRY IN DARKNESS
9. BEGINNING AND END OF EXILE
10. VOYAGE AND HOMECOMING
11. POETRY IS AN OCCUPATION
12. CRUEL, BELOVED HOMELAND
FAREWELL
Note
Editorial Note: Texts Added to This Edition
Chronology
Index
Also by Pablo Neruda
A Note About the Author and Translators
Copyright
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
120 Broadway, New York 10271
Copyright © 1974 by The Estate of Pablo Neruda
Translation copyright © 1976, 1977 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Translation of expanded text copyright © 2021 by Adrian Nathan West
All rights reserved
Originally published in Spanish in 1974 as Confieso que he vivido: Memorias
English translation published in 1977 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux as Memoirs
First Farrar, Straus and Giroux expanded edition, 2021
The final editing of Pablo Neruda’s memoirs was interrupted by his death. Matilde Neruda and Miguel Otero Silva prepared the original manuscript for publication in 1974. An expanded edition was published in Spain in 2017. The English translation has been revised to conform with this new edition.
Ebook ISBN: 978-0-374-71958-6
Our ebooks may be purchased in bulk for promotional, educational, or business use. Please contact the Macmillan Corporate and Premium Sales Department at 1-800-221-7945, extension 5442, or by email at [email protected].
www.fsgbooks.com
www.twitter.com/fsgbooks • www.facebook.com/fsgbooks
r: grayscale(100%); -ms-filter: grayscale(100%); filter: grayscale(100%); " class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons">share