NERUDA, Pablo.

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La canción de la fiesta. First edition of Neruda's rare debut. Neruda, only 17 years old, won Santiago's Spring Festival poetry contest with this, a romantic and trembling description of the blossoming of youthful passion into powerful maturity. His prize was the poem's publication. It marks the beginning of a poetic career that, 50 years later, saw him awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.WorldCat locates just five copies in institutions worldwide.

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