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Insunza, Sergio, 8, 10, 342–43, 402, 451–52
International Congresses of Writers for the Defense of Culture, 245–46, 252, 267, 269, 271–72
Isla Negra, 347, 466, 494, 502
Neruda’s burial on, 490–91, 500
Neruda’s illness and, 492, 600n
Neruda’s life on, 4, 9, 172, 288–89, 311, 325, 393, 415, 417, 421–24, 432–33, 435, 444, 449, 463–64, 470–73, 475, 478–80, 486–87, 489, 500, 503–4, 492, 600n
Neruda’s marriage on, 443–44
Italians, Italy, 48, 57, 74, 245, 263, 303, 329–30, 374–75, 377, 521, 596n
Neruda’s trips to, 381, 385, 392–96, 402, 435
politics in, 249n, 299
Spanish Civil War and, 254, 257, 260, 262, 267, 270
Jara, Victor, 475, 478, 482, 517
Java, 189–92, 195, 199–200, 205, 209
Jiménez, Juan Ramón, 244, 259, 299
Neruda’s manifesto and, 240–41
John Paul II, Pope, 488
Johnson, Lyndon, 436–37, 457, 468
Joyce, James, 78, 141, 207
Kantor, Roanne, 164–65, 182
Keeley, Edmund, 6
Keyt, George, 173
Kissinger, Henry, 457n, 458, 478
Korry, Edward, 459, 461
Kostakowsky, Lya, 371
Lafertte Gaviño, Elías, 323–24, 327, 347
Lagerlöf, Selma, 78
Lago, Tomás, 219, 237, 274, 334, 345, 369, 375n, 400, 416–17
Neruda’s relationship with, 77, 135–36, 419
Lange, Norah, 206, 210, 234
Larrea, Juan, 301
Latorre, Mariano, 113–14, 116
Laurel (Paz and Bergamín), 299–301, 305
Lautaro (Mapuche leader), 518
Lawrence, D. H., 86n, 172–73
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 242–43, 372
León Bettiens, Teresa, 53–56
Neruda’s letters to, 99–100, 104–5, 174
Neruda’s relationship with, 54–56, 58, 64n, 72, 95–96, 99–100, 104–5, 123, 148, 174, 446
Twenty Love Poems and, 95, 99, 104–5
Levine, Suzanne Jill, 454–55, 455n–56n
Library of Congress, 9, 304–5, 437, 439
Lillo, Baldomero, 44–45
Lilpela Pass, 351–54
“Lines on the Birth of Malva Marina Neruda” (Lorca), 234
London, 74, 172, 269, 302, 335, 361
Neruda’s trips to, 426n, 454, 462–63
London, Artur, 385
Lorca, Federico García, 234, 238, 240, 292, 300, 305n, 318, 402, 446
Darío honored by, 213–14, 229–30
death of, 68, 212, 256–57, 263, 267–69
and inauguration of public monuments, 229–30
Neruda’s lecture on, 261–62
Neruda’s relationship with, 211–15, 218, 223–25, 229, 235, 242, 247n, 250, 254, 256–57, 263–64, 266–67
politics of, 247, 250
sexuality of, 212, 227, 250, 255
Spanish Civil War and, 254–57, 267–69
theater group of, 247, 253n
and violence in Spain, 250–51, 254
Lorrain, Jean, 64
Losada, Gonzalo, 365, 395–96, 432, 446
Lota, 44, 47, 101, 333, 342
Loyola, Hernán, 55, 63n, 246
MacLeish, Archibald, 304, 437
Madrid, 89n, 163, 167, 218, 293, 446
and inauguration of public monuments, 229–30
Lorca in, 247, 250
Neruda’s trips to, 151–52, 223–30, 232–33, 244–48, 250, 254, 263–64, 267, 272
Spanish Civil War and, 251–52, 254, 257, 262–64, 266, 268, 270–72, 279–80, 501
Spanish politics and, 222, 249–50
violence in, 250–52, 254, 501
Mapuche, 15–18, 29–30, 43–44, 53, 56, 58, 81, 294, 346, 349, 467, 517–19
Chilean politics and, 460–61
discrimination against, 18, 29, 43, 47
Maquieira, Tulio, 224, 266–69
Martino, César, 309
Martner, María, 424, 469–70, 473
Marxists, Marxism, 45, 322, 372, 460
Allende’s politics and, 1, 48, 457n, 459
Neruda’s politics and, 177–78, 217, 374
Neruda’s second wife’s politics and, 227, 387
Mason, Charles Sumner, 15–20, 22–23, 28–29, 34–35, 43, 68
Mason, Orlando (uncle), 19, 28, 56, 64, 279, 336n
Neruda’s relationship with, 43–47, 50
Mason, Telésfora, 19, 28, 68, 336n
Mayans, 372–76
“Me alquilo para soñar” (“Dreamer for Rent”) (García Márquez), 454
Mexicans, Mexico, 89, 124, 130, 268, 316–18, 381, 384, 414–15, 423, 438, 444–45, 600n
Canto General’s release and, 370–72, 375–77
Neruda offered asylum by, 338, 480, 491–92
Neruda’s life in, 284, 288–95, 298–302, 304, 306–11, 318, 359–69, 371, 375, 380, 392, 403, 440
Neruda’s third wife and, 366, 389–90
Prestes incident and, 307, 326
Spanish Civil War and, 252, 254
Trotsky in, 289–91, 371
Michoacán, La, 318–20, 366, 399, 401–2, 418, 420, 435
Miller, Arthur, 436–37, 468–69
Miller, Henry, 358, 362–63
Milosz, Czeslaw, 413–14
Miranda, María Lucía, 499
Mistral, Gabriela, 58–59, 80, 89, 279, 330, 375n, 439n, 486, 498, 517
Neruda’s relationship with, 59, 111
private letters of, 244–45
Modotti, Tina, 299, 305
Morales, Natalia (grandmother), 14, 20
Morla Lynch, Carlos, 163, 199, 223, 228, 230, 238–39, 244, 247, 250, 266, 305, 327
Morocco, Spanish, 221, 251, 255
Mosalvez, Leoné, 350
Moscow, 218, 248, 290n, 383, 449
Neruda’s trips to, 360, 381, 392, 414, 435, 454, 469
Muñoz, Diego, 237, 375n, 377
Neruda’s love life and, 107, 196, 227–28, 418–19
Neruda’s relationship with, 82, 90–92, 116, 148, 196, 227–28, 273–74, 319, 419
Murga, Romeo, 77
Murieta, Joaquín, 444–46
Nascimento, Carlos George, 124, 126n, 132–33, 135, 200–201, 365
Twenty Love Poems and, 110–11, 117, 123
Neftalí Basoalto Opazo, Rosa (mother), 20–21, 23, 25, 72, 106, 159
Neruda, Pablo (Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto):
Asian travels of, 145–46, 148, 150, 155–60, 162–69, 171–81, 183–98, 201–3, 205, 207, 263, 270, 275, 317, 360, 368, 381, 390, 394–95, 402–3, 434
asylum offers of, 338, 480, 491–92
awards and honors of, 5, 9, 53, 60, 64, 69, 81–82, 96, 107, 135, 152–53, 213–14, 218, 223, 225, 238–39, 273, 290, 300–301, 309–10, 325, 352–53, 355, 370, 383–84, 397, 415–16, 425, 426n, 440, 447, 454–55, 466–68, 471, 473–74, 490, 497, 501
birthdays of, 50, 56, 62, 148, 150, 250, 400, 426n, 452, 464, 469, 483
birth of, 8, 21–22, 45, 72, 348
centennial of, 6, 8, 492, 499–504
Central and South American travels of, 202–15, 218, 225, 233, 274, 284, 288–302, 304, 306–11, 317–18, 326, 354–55, 359–69, 371, 375, 380–81, 392, 398, 403, 416, 427–28, 438, 440, 449–50, 454–55, 455n–56n
childhood and adolescence of, 19, 21–22, 24, 27–51, 53–64, 68–71, 73–94, 100, 102, 106, 115, 122, 131, 133, 235, 240, 242, 262, 278, 315–16, 345, 347–50, 366, 368, 373, 391, 401–3, 419, 423, 429, 431, 439n, 451, 474, 517–19
collecting of, 4–5, 28, 292, 301, 319, 366, 384, 400, 423, 429, 431–32, 474, 490
connection with nature of, 32–33, 55, 102, 350–51
creativity of, 28, 33, 43, 107, 124–25, 128, 132, 138, 160, 238, 278, 318, 406
death of, 1–3, 9–10, 117, 209, 234, 390, 418–19, 438, 447, 479–83, 486, 489–95, 600n–601n
diplomatic postings of, 144–46, 148, 155, 162–63, 166, 168, 171–81, 185–93, 195, 197–200, 202–9, 213–15, 224–25, 245–46, 258, 266, 269–70, 272, 275, 280–81, 284, 288–91, 294–95, 298, 304, 306–8, 318, 351, 371, 400, 402, 464–71
divorces of, 306, 327, 367, 418–20
documentary on, 8–9, 502–4
education of, 5, 34, 36–39, 43, 48, 51, 54, 58–60, 63–64, 68, 71, 74–77, 80, 82–83, 92, 95–96, 124, 126n, 131, 156, 171, 236, 419, 424
European travels of, 150–55, 199, 215, 217–21, 223–30, 232–33, 238–42, 244–48, 250–51, 254, 257–59, 263–68, 272–74, 277–78, 280–81, 288, 317, 357–62, 381–85, 387–98, 400, 402, 413–16, 422, 426n, 428, 435–36, 454, 456, 462–72
exhumation of body of, 491, 493
exile of, 8, 357–61, 365, 369–70, 377, 380–81, 392–93, 396n, 400, 407, 413, 496
finances of, 74, 83, 85, 90, 92, 108, 119, 121–24, 128, 130–32, 135, 142–44, 148, 151, 154, 162, 192–93, 197–200, 204, 224, 246, 266, 270, 275, 285, 295, 298, 306, 318, 327, 338, 369, 374, 381–84, 416, 424, 431–32, 467
flight from Chile of, 8, 338–39, 346–55, 358–59, 377, 379–80
funerals of, 1–3, 9–10, 481–82, 486, 491, 495
heritage of, 34, 80, 268, 373
hiding of, 8, 342–48, 350–51, 402
houses of, 4–6, 9–10, 27–29, 35–36, 142, 289, 317–20, 399, 401–2, 415–19, 421–23, 431–32, 444, 449, 455, 463–64, 466–67, 469–73, 475, 479–81, 486–87, 489–92, 494, 500, 503–4, 600n
illnesses and injuries of, 1, 37, 41, 131, 175, 298, 367–71, 380–81, 385, 392, 401–2, 414, 447–48, 452, 454, 464–74, 476, 478–80, 483–84, 491–93, 495n, 597n, 600n
injections of, 480, 492–94, 600n
interested in indigenous people, 29–30, 47, 371, 374
interviews of, 58, 63, 150, 185, 308, 316, 325, 361, 378n, 380, 399, 401, 403–4, 422, 519
isolation and solitude of, 23, 41, 77, 99, 148–49, 159, 172, 174–75, 180, 188, 193–94, 230
lawsuits of, 335–36, 338, 368, 416
legacy of, 7, 10, 439, 473–74, 489, 496–98, 502
love life of, 41–42, 48, 54–58, 72, 91, 95–107, 112–13, 118, 121–23, 128, 130–31, 132n, 136–37, 140, 147–48, 163–69, 174–76, 186–87, 190–97, 203–4, 210, 212, 220, 226–28, 230, 234, 246–47, 266–67, 274–75, 280, 365–68, 381–82, 384–99, 402, 414–22, 424–26, 431–32, 435, 446, 463–64, 472–73, 480, 498, 503
marriages of, 4, 190–97, 205–6, 209–11, 215, 226, 228, 230, 247, 270, 273, 284, 306, 338, 347–48, 361, 367–68, 384–85, 435, 443–44
masks of, 201–2, 229, 272
melancholy of, 29, 35–39, 42, 61, 75–76, 81, 83, 85, 96, 99, 101, 116, 119, 121, 127, 137, 140–42, 158, 161, 174, 180, 185, 196, 206, 220, 368, 451
names of, vii, 63, 64n, 83, 339, 346, 348, 350–51, 353–54
opium used by, 178–84, 187
Pan-Americanism of, 288, 292, 310–12
as people’s poet, 2, 7, 218, 277–78, 288, 433, 492, 496–97
photos of, 147, 171, 298, 342, 361, 377, 427
physical appearance of, 22, 24, 29, 32–33, 35–37, 46, 56, 58–59, 71, 73–74, 77, 80, 85, 91, 96, 107, 109, 111, 122–23, 135, 171, 189, 196, 223, 228, 273, 292, 298, 318, 324n, 337, 342, 346, 349–50, 355, 357, 387, 391, 399, 419, 443–44, 462, 469–70, 472–73, 478, 492, 503
on poetry and poets, ix, 33, 38, 50, 53, 60, 63, 68, 83–86, 93–94, 97, 138, 198, 218, 228, 240–41, 264, 268–69, 277, 301, 308, 314–16, 362–63, 365, 387, 400–401, 403–5, 422, 425, 426n, 435, 442, 467, 497
poetry readings of, 96, 107–8, 201–2, 211, 223–25, 274, 277, 292, 296, 299, 302, 307, 319–20, 324, 326, 328, 345, 350, 359, 361, 385, 416, 426n–27n, 437–40, 453, 455–56, 462–63, 471, 502
politics of, 1–3, 7–8, 10, 32, 45–47, 68, 77–79, 83–84, 87–89, 92, 97, 144, 149–50, 155, 169, 177–78, 183–84, 187–88, 217–18, 220, 227, 242, 245–46, 251, 262–63, 267–69, 273–74, 276–78, 280, 288, 290–91, 295, 298–302, 303n, 304–6, 308–11, 315–17, 320, 325–30, 334, 341, 343, 359, 361–62, 364–67, 369, 374–75, 378n, 380–83, 385–87, 394, 397–402, 406, 408, 411–14, 418, 422, 424–27, 429–31, 433–34, 436, 438, 441, 445, 449–53, 455–56, 462, 466–69, 471, 475, 478, 480, 483–84, 486, 496, 499, 501, 503
popularity and fame of, 1–3, 7–9, 11, 71, 82, 91, 95–96, 107–8, 112, 119, 122–23, 135, 137, 140, 149, 179, 196, 202, 204–5, 236, 244, 273, 277, 281, 283, 288, 296, 298, 303–4, 325, 360–61, 364–65, 368, 370, 380, 393, 397, 399–400, 416, 418, 422, 429, 433, 437, 440, 444, 446, 453, 455, 462, 468–69, 475, 481–82, 486–87, 491–92, 496–98, 500, 502
presidential campaign of, 452–54
productivity of, 136, 159, 421, 444, 447
reading of, 39, 42, 48, 57, 59, 63, 76, 79–81, 108, 110, 121, 126n, 158, 172–73, 179, 186n, 188, 191–92, 242, 428
reburial of, 490–91, 500
religion and, 21, 98, 172, 185–87, 219
return from exile of, 397–400, 403
senatorial campaign of, 320, 323–24, 412
senatorial career of, 8, 325, 327, 330, 332–38, 341, 348, 361, 366
sexuality and womanizing of, 42, 97–99, 112, 118, 122, 131, 154–56, 165–66, 169, 176–78, 184–85, 187, 210, 212–13, 230, 246–47, 367–68, 463–64, 472–73, 503
social conscience of, 7, 32, 45–46, 89, 218, 247n
socializing of, 78–79, 90–91, 292, 295, 298–99, 319–20, 345, 402, 413, 419
speeches and lectures of, 53, 243, 261–62, 268, 272, 274, 287–88, 292–93, 304, 310–11, 318–19, 326, 330, 334–37, 352–53, 355, 359, 361–65, 385, 387, 393, 399–400, 428–29, 433–34, 453, 467–69, 497
suspected assassination of, 491–95, 495n–96n, 601n
utopian vision of, 373–74, 377, 464
vacations of, 54–58, 64n, 75, 93, 99, 121–22, 124, 130–31, 132n, 150, 388–89, 415, 417
warrant for arrest of, 8, 339, 341–45, 355, 368, 376, 385, 397, 479
workers and, 32, 83–84, 277, 315–16, 330, 332–35, 377, 405, 413, 462, 497
writing routine of, 58, 344, 401, 447
young Chileans on, 498–500
Neruda, Pablo (Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto), writings of:
“Alberto Rojas Jiménez Comes Flying,” 219–20
allegedly plagiarized, 235–40
“Always,” 388
“América, I Don’t Invoke Your Name in Vain,” 308
“America, Your Lamps Must Keep Burning,” 310–11
“Amor América (1400),” 373–74
Anillos (Rings), 135–36, 200–201
Arte de pájaros (Art of Birds), 444
“Arte poética,” 403
Aún (Still Another Day), 448, 519n
“An Autograph of Pablo Neruda,” 281
“Autumn,” 465
La barcarola, 447
“The Birth,” 13
Canción de gesta, 428–29
Canto general (Canto General), 206n, 243, 277, 297, 300, 308, 311, 322–23, 327, 343, 345, 350–51, 366–67, 369–77, 380, 397, 411, 416, 430, 490, 496, 514, 518, 519n
Canto general de Chile, 276–77, 307–8, 311, 380
Cantos ceremoniale (Ceremonial Songs), 431–32
“La Casa,” 32
Un casa en la arena (A House in the Sand), 444
“La chair est triste, hélas!” (“The Flesh Is Sad, Alas!”), 64
Cien sonetos de amor (One Hundred Love Sonnets), 431
Comiendo en Hungria (Eating in Hungary), 436, 439n
“Contradicted Communications,” 182
“The Corpses in the Plaza (January 28, 1946, Santiago de Chile),” 327
Crepusculario (The Book of Twilights), 78, 85–92, 108–9, 113, 141, 200, 205, 369
“The Crisis of Democracy in Chile Is a Dramatic Warning for Our Continent,” 334–36
critical reviews of, 49, 69, 88–89, 113–17, 128–29, 133–35, 138, 151–52, 160–62, 167, 198, 201–2, 205, 235–40, 244, 302–3, 362–65, 372, 380, 406, 408, 425, 434, 445
“Dawn’s Dim Light,” 147
“A Day in Singapore,” 180–81
“Death of a Journalist,” 451
“Deber del poeta” (“Poet’s Obligation”), 432–33
“The Desperate Song,” 54–55
“Desperation,” 41–42
“Discoverers of Chile,” 277
“Disposiciones” (“Dispositions”), 490
“The Distant Life,” 100–101
Elegía (Elegy), 469
“Employee,” 83–84
“Entusiasmo y perseverancia” (“Enthusiasm and Perseverance”), 47
“The Episode,” 434
La espada encendida (The Flaming Sword), 464
España en el corazón (Spain in the Heart), 258, 262, 274, 277, 300, 305
Estravagario (Estravagaria), 425, 426n, 486, 508
“Exegesis and Solitude,” 116–17
“Farewell,” 89–91, 107, 142
“The Father,” 276
final, 483–85
Fin del mundo (World’s End), 450–52
“Forget About Me,” 504
forms, rhythms, and techniques in, 48–49, 64n, 70, 81, 88, 93–94, 97, 102, 112–18, 124–29, 137–38, 152, 157, 160–62, 167–68, 176, 182, 194, 198, 202, 205, 240, 258, 303, 307–8, 311, 315–16, 374, 404, 406–7, 409, 421, 425–26, 426n–27n
“The Frontier (1904),” 27
“The Fugitive: XII,” 341
Fulgor y muerte de Joaquín Murieta (The Splendor and Death of Joaquín Murieta), 444–47, 454
full length poems, 507–16
“The Furies and the Sorrows,” 246
“Galope muerto” (“Dead Gallop”), 137–39, 182
“The Ghost of the Cargo Ship,” 193–94
El habitante y su esperanza (The Inhabitant and His Hope), 133–35, 200–201
“Hate,” 55
“The Heights of Macchu Picchu,” 35, 287, 311–16, 343, 319, 343, 371, 379–80, 397, 404, 426n, 433, 439, 462–63, 512–13
El hondero entusiasta (The Enthusiastic Sling–Shooter), 94, 198, 200–201
“Hospital,” 100–101
“I am Here,” 239
“I End Here (1949),” 357, 380
“I Explain Some Things,” 228–29, 262–64, 501
“Illness in My Home,” 233
images and symbols in, 4, 35, 54–55, 62, 88, 112, 114, 129, 134, 137–38, 142, 159–61, 166–68, 182, 207, 324n, 362, 406, 433, 435, 447, 451, 483, 503, 505, 519n
“I’m Scared,” 88
“In Vietnam,” 448
