It is celebrated on September 23 50 years of death at age 69 Pablo Neruda12 days after the bloody coup in Chile. association Ricardo Eliecer Neftali Reyes Basoalto, The 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature crosses a new dividing line that is no longer associated with its communist status. “I like it when you’re quiet ’cause it’s like you don’t exist“. 15th lines of the poemTwenty love poems and a hopeless song‘, since 1924, summarized decades of Nerudian writings. The feminist movement rewrote these in condemnatory language: “Neruda, you shut up“. This call for silence from the guardian of Chilean culture sounds like a scream that would have been unthinkable a long time ago.
All this is happening at the same time that it is still not known for certain whether the author of ‘Canto general’ died of cancer or was killed by agents of the general’s dictatorship. Augusto Pinochet. The alleged poisoning at a clinic in Santiago initially came from his driver and secretary, Manuel Araya. Neruda’s heirs say so political crime. Last February, the final report of a group of forensic experts was leaked. It was reported that traces of a bacteria that coincidentally did not reach his body were seen in the poet’s skeletal remains. However, the conclusions of the experts did not acquire the weight of judicial truth. The case in the hands of Judge Paola Plaza González appears to be floating in limbo.
As the mystery surrounding his death unfolds, the question of how many Nerudas reside in his body in Chile recurs. Militant or poet? Cruel father, or the person who participated in the arrival of 2000 Republican exiles to Chile on the ship Winnipeg? The arrogant sexual abuser or the whistleblower of injustice? Some of these contradictions are already present in Pablo Larraín’s 2016 film. Actor Luis Gnecco plays a Neruda wanted by the Government. Secrecy is far from exemplary: he is still ‘alive’ and a believer in infidelity.
months ago president Gabriel Boric He visited Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. Here he read the 20th poem from the famous book to the students: ‘Your chest is enough for my heart / My wings are enough for your freedom.’ Across the Bay of Bengal, in the current area Sri LankaThe incident that incriminated Neruda took place in 1927, and he described it shamelessly in his memoirs ‘I confess that I lived’, published in 1974.
Neftalí Reyes is then a diplomatic consul in Ceylon and is obsessed with a girl who cleans the toilet. He describes it as a “dark statue”. Is “the most beautiful woman I have ever seen“. She belongs to the Tamil race, from the caste of outcasts. She wears a red and gold sari. She walks barefoot, the gait of an “indifferent queen”. Neruda cannot tolerate this. “I held her wrist carefully, determining everything, and looked her face to face.” The employee “without laughing is my consented to be guided by me and Soon she was naked in my bed“. Neruda penetrates her without her consent. “She remained wide-eyed and impassive the entire time. He was right to underestimate me“.
appearance change
For many years, expert readings overlooked this situation. HE interpretative turn Concerns about her figure came hand in hand with the rise of the gender agenda that began to affect Chile. Eight years ago journalist Carla Moreno Saldías featured him on the cover of the fictional magazine Machista Progre.“I confess that I violated”. His words were provocative: “Society seems to condemn things like rape and femicide, but in reality it doesn’t.Shortly after, ‘Neruda, The Poet’s Call’ was published, an ambitious biography written by Mark Eisner, who is also one of the most important translators of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s work into English. Eisner spoke openly about a rape case.
‘Alborada’ was released in 2019, A film by the Sinhalese Asoka Handagama that portrays this consul as an abuser. The director was impressed Reactions to the initiative to name Santiago airport after the poet. Feminist groups not only remembered the scene described in the memoirs. He also suffers from hydrocephalus, and in his father’s eyes “they condemned him for abandoning his sick two-year-old daughter”a completely ridiculous being!. Handagama had to rewrite the script. “I wanted to take her off the pedestalhumanize the situation.”
New matters
The debate ran its course. “What do we do with Neruda? Are we evaluating it through today’s eyes?Should we cancel? Can’t we give it more names?… I don’t think so, but memory seems important to me, and from there knowledge, to evaluate whether we want to continue reading Lewis Carroll, Dickens, Flaubert,” the novelist noted in 2022. Montserrat Martorell. Last April, Isabel Allende added to the discussions. ““Neruda admits to raping a woman and Chilean feminists want to eliminate him”. And he added: “A failed man is one thing, because we are all failures, and business is another thing.”
In the heat of these debates, in the midst of the fiftieth anniversary of his death, the 20th poem of his canonical book is up for grabs. “Then we are not the same“. Many of those today who appropriate this “sad verse”. They can no longer read it in the same celebratory manner.
Source: Informacion
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