Key Points

• Wrote passionate love poems in a variety of styles

• Excellent example of surrealism in poetry

• Wrote historical plays

• Literary work is circumscribed in the so-called Soviet socialist realism

• Participate in politics, influenced by marxism principles

• Received the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1971

Relevant Works

• Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada

• Residencia en la tierra

• Canto general

• Cantos ceremoniales

• Geografía infructuosa

• Las uvas y el viento

• Estravagario