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.

Notebook 1 : It is Very Early
Notebook 2 : Travel Images
Notebook 3 : The Fire of Friendship
Notebook 4 : Sailing in Smoke
Notebook 5 : Reflections from Ilsa Negra
Notebook 6 : The Struggle for Justice
Notebook 7 : Pablo Neruda Speaks