“Life took me to the farthest corners of the world before I got to where my starting point should have been, Spain.” These words written by Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) Journey to the heart of Quevedo They describe it perfectly in 1943 The relationship and feeling that the Chilean writer claims for this countryHe set foot for the first time in 1934 and would never leave even though he was miles away.
During his long career, his poetry and prose He flew directly or indirectly through a Spain where he had developed great friendships, enjoyed and suffered with poets such as Garcia Lorca, Vicente Aleixandre or Miguel Hernández and the hostilities he could not overcome Juan Ramon Jimenez; in his hometown of Chile, where he learned about barbarism, to which history was mirrored, and discovered a new way of writing, which led him to reaffirm his ideology.
All those literary verses that have infected this country have been collected in the volume. Written about Spain Jose Carlos RoviraProfessor Emeritus and Professor at the University of Alicante, where he is professor of Hispano-American Literature Abel Villaverde, also from AU. A book with a foreword by the Chilean poet Raúl Zurita.” A great love homage to his relationship with this land. I’ll celebrate and cry until I’m loving“, he reassures in the preface. “Pablo Neruda explores Spain and in doing so discovers the mysterious and deep origins of his poetry there.”
Created by the UA and Talca University (Chile), this volume about 500 pages In addition to a survey of the coordinators, Rovira says she collected “all or nearly all” of Neruda’s texts about Spain. “A lot because a poet who constantly evokes Spain and he thinks about what he went through, the dictatorship, how he could not return to Madrid because of the oppression”.
The Chilean first arrived in Spain in 1934, after a diplomatic trip to Asia, as his country’s consul, first in Barcelona and then in Madrid, the city where he took over the post. Gabriela Mistral He is also a Nobel Prize winner for literature. He lived there until 1936, when the Civil War broke out and he was sacked (“I love Madrid, and I can’t fly there,” he wrote). He returned to join in 1937. Antifascist Writers Congress in Valencia and Madrid. And he would do it again by boat when he wanted to land in Barcelona and Tenerife on his way home in 1971.
when i set foot in spain
“When I set foot in Spain, when I set foot on the dusty stones of their scattered towns, when the blood of their wounds flowed onto my forehead and soul, I realized an original part of my being, a rocky foundation. The cradle of blood still trembles,” he wrote. Journey to the heart of Quevedo, one of the many texts that evokes this country, along with I confess that I live anyone Spain at heart.
This is the last work published. paper made by republic soldiers who fought on the front lines and not only changed and stigmatized his life and poetry forever, but also gave him that second homeland, mother and stepmother, the possibility of a future birth,” emphasizes Raúl Zurita.
The book begins with poetry and residence on earth, where Praise to Garcia Lorca It was published in 1933 and, through its pages, like other poets To Miguel Hernández, who was killed in Spanish prisons wave Praise to Don Jorge Manrique or Ramón Gómez de la Serna. in prose Studying Azorín in a small town anyone On the death of Antonio Machado, In addition stay inside, Alberti in Tamuco or the last love of the poet Federico.
There are also a lot of texts about the political and social situation in this country. This situation Poor Spain because of the rich, How was Spain?, Arrival of the International Brigade in Madrid, In Hell, General Franco, I’m out in Madrid looking for a convention or the fallen..
best job
And to put the final point, Winnipeg, what did you think “best work”, says Rovira. That was the name of the ship Neruda arranged in August 1939. Take over two thousand refugees from the south of France to Valparaíso in Chile Fight in Spain to give them what the poet calls a “second homeland.”
presentation written about Spain, what date will it be done On May 10 at UA City Center in AlicanteIt will take place with the participation of Raúl Zurita, who will be connected as a director from Chile; Beatriz Aracil, Director of the UA Mario Benedetti Center for Ibero-American Studies; Marcela Albornoz Carmen Alemany, director of culture and editorial at Talca University in Chile, who will talk about working with the authors.
Neruda’s “murder”
“I believe they killed him,” says José Carlos Rovira of the latest expert report showing that he was assassinated. “Today, after several tests with his remains, international laboratories consider it most likely, through an injection given in hospital without a clinical document containing it, almost without anyone’s knowledge, although fifty years later the evidence is difficult, although the years of his assassination are evident. “The Mexican government prepared a plane in Santiago to get him out of Chile. He was the number one enemy of the coup and the dictatorship because of its international dimension. After President Allende died in the shootout at La Moneda,” he notes.