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by Pablo Neruda


  1968 JULY 12: Neruda celebrates his sixty-fourth birthday in Isla Negra. He plans to write his memoirs based on the series of articles published by the journal O Cruzeiro Internacional in 1962.

  1968 AUGUST 22: Neruda travels to Montevideo with Matilde. They continue to Brazil. In São Paolo, Neruda inaugurates a monument to Federico García Lorca. Then he visits Salvador, Congonhas, Petrópolis, Ouro Prêto, and Brasília, where he meets the city’s founder, architect Oscar Niemeyer.

  1968 OCTOBER: From Brazil they travel on to Colombia, where Neruda and Miguel Ángel Asturias form part of the jury for the First Festival of University Theater in Manizales.

  1968 NOVEMBER: Losada, in Buenos Aires, publishes Las manos del día (The Hands of the Day).

  1968 Neruda tells his editor Gonzalo Losada of his plan to build Cantalao, a place where writers and artists can stay to work, on a piece of land he has purchased near Isla Negra.

  12. CRUEL, BELOVED HOMELAND

  1969 JANUARY AND FEBRUARY: Neruda participates in the electoral campaign for the Communist Party candidates in the March parliamentary elections.

  1969 JULY: Nascimento, in Santiago, publishes Aún (Still).

  1969 AUGUST: The Society for Contemporary Art in Santiago publishes Fin de mundo (End of the World) in an edition illustrated by Mario Carreño, Nemesio Antúnez, Pedro Millar, María Martner, Julio Escámez, and Oswaldo Guayasamín.

  1969 AUGUST 19: The Chilean National Library in Santiago inaugurates a bibliographic exhibition of the work of Pablo Neruda.

  1969 AUGUST 21: The Catholic University of Chile awards Neruda a doctor scientiae et honoris causa.

  1969 SEPTEMBER 30: The Communist Party declares Neruda its candidate for the Presidency of the Republic in the 1970 elections. The campaign slogan will be “For Popular Unity.”

  1969 OCTOBER: Neruda makes a cross-country campaign trip from Arica to Lota. In December a second trip will take him to Temuco and Punta Arenas. At the beginning of 1970, a mass of people will greet him in the port of Valparaíso.

  1970 JANUARY: Neruda relinquishes his candidacy to support Salvador Allende, who will become the only left-wing candidate.

  1970 The Santiago publisher Lord Cochrane releases a deluxe edition of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair illustrated with watercolors by Mario Toral.

  1970 APRIL: Neruda leaves for Europe with Matilde. In Moscow he participates in the ceremonies surrounding the hundredth anniversary of Lenin’s birth. He will later travel to the Westminster Poetry Festival in London.

  1970 JUNE 23: In Cannes, Neruda and Matilde board a ship bound for the Americas. They pass through Barcelona on the twenty-fourth and spend their brief time there with Gabriel García Márquez.

  1970 EARLY JULY: Neruda and Matilde stop in Venezuela, where Neruda participates in the Third Latin American Congress of Writers in Caracas. They continue on to Peru, where the poet will give a recital dedicated to the victims of the May 31 earthquake and will meet with President Velasco Alvarado.

  1970 MID-JULY: Neruda and Matilde return to Chile. Neruda participates actively in the presidential campaign of Salvador Allende, who will win the election on September 4.

  1970 Losada, in Buenos Aires, publishes La espada encendida (The Sword Aflame) and Las piedras del cielo (The Stones of the Sky).

  1970 The Society for Contemporary Art in Santiago publishes Maremoto (Tsunami), illustrated with color engravings by Karin Oldfelt.

  1971 JANUARY: Neruda travels to Easter Island, where he will remain for around ten days filming chapters of the TV series Historia y geografía de Pablo Neruda (History and Geography of Pablo Neruda), directed by Hugo Arévalo, for the Catholic University’s Channel 13. This trip will lead to the book La rosa separada (The Separated Rose), which will be published in 1972.

  1971 JANUARY 21: The Chilean Congress approves Neruda’s nomination as ambassador to France.

  1971 MARCH 20: Neruda and Matilde arrive in Paris. On the twenty-sixth, he presents his credentials to President Georges Pompidou.

  1971 JULY 12: Neruda celebrates his sixty-seventh birthday.

  1971 SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER: Neruda searches for a quiet place outside the city to write. In Condé-sur-Iton, in Normandy, an hour and a half from Paris, he finds an old house that had once been attached to a noble estate.

  1971 OCTOBER 21: From the Swedish ambassador in Paris, Gunnar Hägglö, Neruda receives official notification that he has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy’s text describes Neruda as “the poet of violated humanity,” noting that he himself has been repeatedly persecuted and that the community of the oppressed from across the world found its place in his work.

  1971 LATE OCTOBER: The poet undergoes an operation at Cochin Hospital in Paris. Dr. Raúl Bulnes, a friend of Neruda’s and his neighbor in Isla Negra, travels from Chile to be present during the procedure. Afterward, Neruda goes to relax in the house he has purchased, which he christens “La Manquel.”

  1971 EARLY DECEMBER: Neruda and Matilde travel to Stockholm. The Nobel Prize ceremony takes place on the tenth. At the official dinner, Neruda gives a brief speech in the name of this year’s winners, and follows it with his acceptance speech.

  1971 DECEMBER 31: Neruda celebrates New Year’s with a group of friends at La Manquel.

  1972 JANUARY: Neruda grants Mikis Theodorakis permission to set his Canto general to music. The oratorio Canto general will be finished after the poet’s death, and will debut in Greece in 1974.

  1972 FEBRUARY: Neruda participates in the meetings of the Chilean delegation with the Paris Club to renegotiate the country’s external debt.

  1972 APRIL 10: Neruda gives the opening address for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the P.E.N. club in New York.

  1972 APRIL 25: Neruda and Matilde travel to Moscow, where Neruda will be admitted to a clinic between April 26 and May 5.

  1972 MAY: Losada in Buenos Aires publishes Geografía infructuosa (Fruitless Geography).

  1972 MID-JUNE: Neruda travels to London to participate in the International Poetry Festival. He is reunited with Octavio Paz, and the two men reconcile.

  1972 JUNE 28: Neruda returns to Paris, where he is hospitalized for several days.

  1972 JULY 12: Neruda celebrates his sixty-eighth birthday with a dinner at the embassy. He invites a group of friends to La Manquel. Participants in the festivities include Julio Cortázar and his partner, Ugnė Karvelis, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jorge Edwards, Poli Délano, and the Chilean Foreign Minister, Clodomiro Almeyda.

  1972 MID-JULY: Neruda receives palliative surgery.

  1972 JULY: Laura Reyes, the poet’s sister, arrives in Paris with Homero Arce, a poet whose aid Neruda has requested in the preparation of his memoirs.

  1972 OCTOBER 26: Neruda meets with French President Georges Pompidou.

  1972 OCTOBER 28: Neruda is elected to a four-year term as member of UNESCO’s Advisory Board.

  1972 NOVEMBER 20: Neruda and Matilde return to Chile by plane.

  1972 DECEMBER 5: A ceremony takes place in the National Stadium in Santiago to celebrate the poet’s winning the Nobel Prize. General Carlos Prats, Vice President of the Republic, attends in place of President Allende, who is on an overseas tour.

  1972 DECEMBER 31: Neruda sees in the New Year with friends at La Sebastiana, his house in Valparaíso.

  1973 The Allende government agrees, through the Corporation for Urban Improvement, to carry out the Cantalao project, the poet’s last dream: a residence close to the sea where writers and artists can work. The architects Raúl Bules, Carlos Martner, and Virginia Plubins are responsible for the design, with Neruda’s active participation.

  1973 FEBRUARY 2: President Salvador Allende and his wife arrive in Isla Negra to visit Neruda. Also in attendance is a writer from the Communist Party, Luis Corvalán, and the senator Volodia Teitelboim. On this occasion, Neruda renounces his French ambassadorship.

  1973 FEBRUARY 16: Quimantú, in Santia
go, publishes Incitación al Nixonicidio y alabanza de la revolución chilena (Incitation to Nixonicide and Praise of the Chilean Revolution) in an edition of seventy thousand copies.

  1973 Despite his fragile health, Neruda continues writing. He is working on the end of his memoirs and on seven volumes of poetry. He intends to publish them to celebrate his seventieth birthday, on July 12, 1974.

  1973 EARLY APRIL: At the Hotel Miramar in Viña del Mar, where the poet is recovering after a round of cobalt radiation therapy, he dictates to the journalist Luis Alberto Mansilla an homage to Pablo Picasso, who died on April 8.

  1973 MID-APRIL: Matilde travels to Paris to arrange for the transport of possessions they have left at the embassy and to put La Manquel up for sale.

  1973 JULY 12: Neruda celebrates his sixty-ninth birthday in Isla Negra with a small group of friends he receives from his bed.

  1973 AUGUST 30: Again, Luis Alberto Mansilla visits. The poet asks him to come to Isla Negra so he can dictate a contribution to the ninetieth-birthday celebrations of Dr. Alejandro Lipschutz.

  1973 SEPTEMBER 11: The poet and Matilde learn from radio and television broadcasts of the military coup, the bombardment of La Moneda Palace, and the death of President Allende.

  1973 SEPTEMBER 14: Neruda dictates a text to Matilde for the close of his memoirs. The house on Isla Negra is raided by a military patrol.

  1973 SEPTEMBER 19: The poet’s health worsens. He is transferred to Santiago by ambulance in the company of Matilde. He is admitted with a fever to the Clínica Santa María.

  1973 SEPTEMBER 23: The poet dies at 10:30 p.m. The vigil is held at his house La Chascona, which is in a ruinous state after numerous acts of vandalism.

  1973 SEPTEMBER 25: Pablo Neruda is buried in Santiago’s Cementerio General. Despite the intimidating military presence, a mass of people spontaneously joins the funeral procession, and the poet’s burial becomes the first manifestation of popular rejection of the military government.

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  Ady, Endre

  Aga Khan

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  Aguirre, Sócrates

  Aguirre Cerda, Pedro

  Ai Ch’ing

  Alarcón, Asterio

  Alba, Duke and Duchess of

  Alberti, Rafael

  Alderete (journalist)

  Alegría, Ciro

  Alegría, Fernando

  Aleixandre, Vicente

  Alekseevich, Pyotr (Peter the Great)

  Alessandri Palma, Arturo

  Alexandrov, Grigory

  Alicattas (Naples friends)

  Allende, Salvador

  Alone (Hernán Díaz Arrieta)

  Alonso, Amado

  Altolaguirre, Manuel

  Altolaguirre, Paloma

  Alvarez del Vayo, Julio

  Amado, Jorge

  Amado, Zelia

  Andreyev, Leonid

  Antúnez, Nemesio

  Aparicio, Antonio

  Apollinaire, Guillaume

  Aragon, Elsa, see Triolet, Elsa

  Aragon, Louis

  Aramburu, Pedro Eugenio

  Aráoz Alfaro, Rodolfo

  Arce, Homero

  Arciniegas, Germán

  Arenales, Angélica

  Argensola, Bartolomé Leonardo de

  Argensola, Lupercio Leonardo de

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  Arrau, Claudio

  Artsybashev, Mikhail

  Asterio (watchmaker)

  Asturias, Miguel Angel

  Auden, W. H.

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  Baera (professor in India)

  Balmaceda, José Manuel

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  Barquero, Efraín

  Bartolomé (eccentric in Valparaíso)

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  Bécquer, Gustavo Adolfo

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  Beecham, Thomas

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  Bertaux (chief of police in France)

  Betancourt, Rómulo

  Beyle, Marie-Henri (“Stendhal”)

  Bhrampy (houseboy)

  Bianchi, Victor

  Blest Gana

  Bliss, Josie

  Bloch, Jean-Richard

  Blow, Joe

  Blum, Léon

  Bolívar, Simón

  Borejsza, Jerzy

  Boscán, Juan

  Bose, Subhas Chandra

  Botana, Natalio

  Boureanu, Radu

  Bowers, Claude

  Braganza, Duchess of

  Brandt, Willy

  Brecht, Bertolt

  Brik, Lili

  Brunet, Marta

  Buddha

  Buffalo Bill

  Bulnes, Raúl

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  Cabezón, Isaías

  Calcutta Strangler (wrestler)

  Calderón de la Barca, Pedro

  Camacho Ramírez, Arturo

  Candia Marverde, Trinidad

  Capablanca, José Raúl

  Cárdenas, Lázaro

  Carlos (commandant), see Vidali, Vittorio

  Caro, Rodrigo

  Carol (Romanian monarch)

  Carpentier, Alejo

  Carrera, José Miguel

  Carril, Delia del (wife)

  Carroll, Lewis

  Carvajal, Armando

  Casas, Bartolomé de las

  Castro, Fidel

  Catherine (empress of Russia)

  Cavalcanti, Guido

  Céline, Louis-Ferdinand

  Cerio, Edwin

  Cernuda, Luis

  Cervantes, Miguel de

  Chambers, Whittaker

  Chamisso, Adelbert von

  Chaucer, Geoffrey

  Chekhov, Anton

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Chou En-lai

  Christ

  Churchill, Winston

  Chu Teh

  Cifuentes Sepúlveda, Joaquín

  Codovilla, Victorio

  Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle

  Columbus, Christopher

  Condon (shipping magnate)

  Condon, Alfredo

  Condon, Carmen

  Confucius

  Corniglion-Molinier (aviator)

  Cortázar, Julio

  Cortés, Hernán

  Corvalán, Luis

  Cotapos, Acario

  Crevel, René

  Cruchaga Tocornal, Miguel

  Crusoe, Robinson

  Cunard, Lady Emerald

  Cunard, Nancy

  D’Annunzio, Gabriele

  Dante Alighieri

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  Debray, Régis

  de Gaulle, Charles

  Deglané, Bobby

  Demaría, Alfredo

  Desnoes, Edmundo

  Desnos, Robert

  Díaz Arrieta, Hernán (“Alone”)

  Díaz Casanueva, Humberto

  Díaz Pastor, Fulgencio

  Diego, Gerardo

  Donoso, José

  Dostoevsky, Feodor

  Drda, Jan

  Drieu La Rochelle, Pierre

  Ducasse, Isidore (“Lautréamont”)

  Durruti, Buenaventura

  Echelarte (family)

  Edwards, Jorge

  Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor)

  Egaña, Juan

  Ehrenburg, Ilya

  Ehre
nburg, Lyuba

  Einstein, Albert

  Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich

  El Greco, see Theotokópoulos, Doménikos

  Eliot, T. S.

  Eluard, Dominique

  Eluard, Paul

  Emar, Juan (Pilo Yáñez)

  Ercilla, Alonso de

  Escobar (chauffeur)

  Escobar, Zoilo

  Espinosa, Pedro de

  Fadeyev, Alexander

  Fantômas (fictional character)

  Fauré, Gabriel

  Fedin, Konstantin

  Felipe, León

  Fernández, Joaquín

  Fernández Retamar, Roberto

  Fierro, Martín (fictional character)

  Figueroa, Inés

  Fonseca, Ricardo

  Foppens, Jean François

  Franck, César

  Franco, Francisco

  Fraser, G. S.

  Frei, Eduardo

  Fuentes, Carlos

  Gable, Clark

  Gallegos, Rómulo

  Gandhi, Mahatma

  Gandulfo, Juan

  García Lorca, Federico

  García Lorca, Francisco

  García Márquez, Gabriel

  García Rico (bookseller)

  Garcilaso de la Vega

  Garfias, Pedro

  Gascar, Alice

  Gasperi, Alcide De

  Gattai, Zelia, see Amado, Zelia

  Gauguin, Paul

  Gautama, Siddhārtha, see Buddha

  Gide, André

  Girondo, Oliverio

  Giroux, Françoise

  Goebbels, Joseph

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

  Gómez, Juan Vicente

  Gómez de la Serna, Ramón

  Gómez Rojas, Domingo

  Góngora, Luis de

  González, Galo

  González Cruchaga, Carlos (bishop)

  González Tuñón, Amparo

  González Tuñón, Raúl

  González Vera, José Santos

  González Videla, Gabriel

  Goya, Francisco de

  Gris, Juan

  Guevara, Alvaro (“Chile”)

  Guevara, Ernesto (“Che”)

  Guillén, Jorge

  Güiraldes, Ricardo

  Gustaf VI (king)

  Gutiérrez, Joaquín

  Guttuso, Renato

  Hagenaar, María Antonieta

  Hauser, Kaspar

 

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