Book record
World’s end
Pablo Neruda
Translated from Spanish by William O'Daly
Pablo Neruda's World's End, translated by William O'Daly, belongs to the later Neruda of historical reckoning, planetary scale, and moral exhaustion. A title like World's End can sound apocalyptic, but Neruda's apocalypse is rarely only spectacle. It is political, ecological, personal, and historical, shaped by a century that had given poets far too many reasons to distrust human triumph. O'Daly's translation places the book within a broader English-language recovery of Neruda's less simplified work. This is not only the poet of love and tomatoes. It is the poet looking toward wreckage, empire, memory, and the fragile endurance of song. I would recommend World's End to readers who want Neruda at his large scale, where the lyric voice tries to speak to history itself and discovers that history does not answer gently.
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Copper Canyon Press
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Chile
- ISBN
- 9781556592829