"ESCRUPULARIO" Y RESILENCIA EN VEINTE POEMAS DE AMOR Y UNA CANCIóN DESESPERADA DE PABLO NERUDA

pablo neruda's twenty love poems and a song of despair (1942) is one of the cardinal books of spanish american lyric sociability and sentimental education. however, this work has been widely scrutinized and examined -turned from document into "monument"- both its generative process and socio-critical correlative context have not been sufficiently pondered in order to tackle the mechanisms and procedures that co-construct its second published edition by the poet. from bio-bibliographical, critical, and historical references, this article attempts to synthetically explore the textual, aesthetic and socio-cultural strategies articulated in twenty love poems 'manufacture, proposing an interpretation that emphasizes the author 's self-critical exhaustively, and the paradoxes of this work s valuation, especially considering its reception in chile.