Pablo Neruda: Everyone's song

*The Song of All* is the masterpiece by Pablo Neruda, a Nobel Prize-winning author who spoke on behalf of the common people of Latin America. Considered by Neruda his greatest work, this book is an epic composed of 252 poems across 15 parts, serving as a representative poetry collection that reveals his unique historical consciousness and affection for all things. While most history books briefly mention the Maya, Aztec, and Inca cultures prior to the discovery of the Americas and describe the period following European arrival in detail, Neruda sings of the Americas from its temples to the modern history of the 1950s, a period that history books have failed to cover. The works contained in this book are a collection of poems written from 1938, when he was dismissed and returned home after publicly supporting the Republicans while serving as a consul during the Spanish Civil War; through his time as a refugee consul in Paris and later as Consul General in Mexico; his return to politics; and his eventual exile in 1949 to escape persecution by the regime. In this book, Neruda moves beyond the subjective poetic world of his early *Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair* and the sentimental poetic world shown in the surrealist *Dwelling on Earth* to explore his roots as a Chilean and American and present the image of an intellectual in action who embodies justice for humanity.

Korean title: 모두의 노래

Korean author: 파블로 네루다

Korean publisher: 문학과지성사

ISBN-13: 9788932028866