by Gabriela Mistral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789561308008
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«Tala» is the poetry collection by Gabriela Mistral, published by Editorial Andrés Bello in paperback (166 pages, in Spanish).
Poetry collection from the peak period of Gabriela Mistral, bringing together childhood, death, love and the American landscape. Its texts include «Nocturno de la consumición», «Lápida filial» and «Recado de nacimiento para Chile», where lyricism and commitment to Hispanic America resonate.
Poetry collection originally published in 1938; its author received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945, the first for Chile.
For readers interested in poetry and Hispanic American literature; also a gateway to the work of the Chilean Nobel laureate.
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral, was a Chilean poet-diplomat, journalist and educator. She read widely in theosophy, became a member of the Secular Franciscan Order or Third Franciscan order in 1925, but rarely attended mass. She was the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945, "for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world". Some central themes in her poems are nature, betrayal, love, a mother's love, sorrow and recovery, travel, and Latin American identity as formed from a mixture of Native American and European influences. She also wrote an immense body of prose, about 800 articles that circulated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, on a range of topics: geography, education, profiles of her fellow writers, politics, and more. Her image is featured on the 5,000 Chilean peso banknote.
