Canto General - Pablo Neruda

The Greatest Poet Of The Twentieth Century In Any Language.gabriel Garca Mrquez, Of Pablo Nerudapablo Nerudas Epic Poem Canto General Is A Prodigious Work That Scrolls Out Like The Chronicle Of A Journey Through The Americas. In His Most Audacious And Ambitious Achievement, Neruda Depicts History As A Vast, Continuous Struggle Against Oppression. Constructed In Fifteen Parts, And Made Up Of More Than Fifteen Thousand Lines, Canto General Unfolds In Successive Epochs, Celebrating The Flora And Fauna And Geology Of Nerudas Homeland And Recounting Episodes In The Lives Of Explorers And Conquistadors, Emperors And Dictators, Revolutionaries And Everyday Laborers.