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A review of the new edition of the Complete Works of Neruda, edited by Hernán Loyola, together with the biography by David Schidlowsky, Las Furias y las Penas: Pablo Neruda y su Tiempo (Furies and Sorrows Pablo Neruda and his Time) —notes Enrique Mario Santí in this article— demonstrates that neither one nor the other are truly "complete" despite their monumental effort. If Loyola’s edition lacks more than 300 texts indicated by Schidlowsky, the biography foregoes important texts compiled by the edition. And while the edition seems to be governed by a decision to exclude texts that reveal the aging Nerudian sectarianism, the biography, with all its virtues, resists providing a coherent interpretation of his life and work. In both cases, at the time of the one hundredth anniversary of the poet’s birth, it is proven that the true "complete work" and biography still remain to be written.