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Neruda: An Intimate Biography
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by Volodia Teitelboim, Beverly J. Delong-Tonelli (Translator)
Volodia Teitelboim
Neruda: An Intimate Biography
522
by Volodia Teitelboim, Beverly J. Delong-Tonelli (Translator)
Volodia Teitelboim
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Overview
A biography of the noted Chilean poet.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780292781245 |
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| Publisher: | University of Texas Press |
| Publication date: | 09/01/1992 |
| Series: | Texas Pan American Series |
| Pages: | 522 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.17(d) |
About the Author
Volodia Teitelboim (1916-2008) was a noted Chilean politician and lawyer, as well as the author of numerous books. Beverly J. DeLong-Tonelli is Professor Emerita of Romance Languages and Literature at California State University, Long Beach.
Table of Contents
- Translator’s Foreword
- Preliminary Note
- Part One. From Rain to War
- I. Frontier Boy
- 1. Visiting His Mother
- 2. Farewell to Parral
- 3. Return
- 4. A Camp City
- 5. His “Momother”
- 6. The Brusque Father
- 7. I Don’t Know How or When . . .
- 8. A Dream?
- 9. Childhood Friends
- 10. The First Poet
- 11. The Ostrich
- 12. A Boy Knocks on Gabriela’s Door
- 13. Stammering Poet
- 14. Boy and Pianos
- 15. His Brother’s Birthday
- 16. Beginnings
- 17. Prose Writer of Necessity?
- II. Twilight Youth
- 18. The Crazy Twenties
- 19. Unamuno and Patriotism’s Stockholders
- 20. Boardinghouses and Tenements
- 21. Maruri and Twilights
- 22. Why “Neruda”?
- 23. The Student
- 24. Friendship and Bohemia
- 25. Flown Away
- 26. Pablo de Rokha
- 27. The Girl from Temuco
- 28. Women and Their Poems
- 29. Incandescent Pollen
- 30. A Tomb for Birds
- 31. The Girl from Santiago
- 32. A Strange Violator of Secrets
- 33. Love and Poetry
- 34. The Verse Changes: The Woman Remains the Same
- 35. Letters as Confession and Anguish
- 36. The Period of the Sturgeon-thin Poet
- 37. Farewell
- 38. Crisis in Bohemia
- 39. The Lazy Man Who Works Like a Factory
- 40. Writers and Elephants
- 41. To the Islands
- 42. Departure
- III. Anguish and Creation in the Orient
- 43. Pressures from Afar
- 44. Responsibilities in Batavia
- 45. Family Letters
- 46. Vigils and Dreams on the Crossing
- 47. Solitude in Burma
- 48. Ambitions and Desires
- 49. Messages from a Castaway
- 50. Doubts in Rangoon
- 51. Realism in Residence
- 52. Letters from the Orient
- 53. Solemn Communique
- 54. Return to “Maligna”
- IV. Writing in the School of Hard Knocks
- 55. The Poet and the Mask
- 56. Song of Songs?
- 57. Two-man Bullfight
- 58. Arrival at the Main Office
- 59. Two Unique Consuls
- 60. Misfortunes
- 61. “Ant” or “Neighbor”?
- 62. Dogs and Poets
- 63. A Warm Welcome
- 64. Affinities
- 65. Controversies
- 66. Rectification
- 67. The Polemic over the Anthology and Tagore’s Gardener
- 68. A Heavyweight Fighter
- 69. On the Eve . . .
- 70. Execution in Viznar
- 71. Why the Change?
- 72. The Book on Spain
- 73. The Poet in the Street and a Femme Fatale
- 74. Literary Passions
- 75. President of Intellectuals
- 76. Water of Life and Death
- I. Frontier Boy
- Part Two. Passion and Death
- V. His Discovery of America
- 77. Accursed Cities
- 78. Elections in Chile
- 79. Houses
- 80. Operation “Salvage”
- 81. The Winnipeg Adventure Continues
- 82. Reflection of the Spanish Experience
- 83. Repentance
- 84. Magical and Violent Country
- 85. Mexican Miscellany
- 86. Battles, Serenades, and Slashes
- 87. Ascent to Origins
- 88. Personal and Extrapersonal Meaning of Machu Picchu
- 89. Four Journeys
- 90. An Unusual Speech
- 91. Congressional Debut
- 92. The Problem of Time
- 93. The Honorable Mr. Reyes Praises Lucila Godoy Alcayaga
- 94. Pro Memoria
- 95. Strange Waltz
- 96. The Great Somersault
- 97. The Poet Accuses
- 98. Clandestine Life
- 99. Looking for a Way Out
- 100. Preparations in the Forest
- 101. Toward the Ends of the Earth
- VI. The World Voyage
- 102. Saint Martin of Free Men
- 103. The Charge to Publish the General Song
- 104. Parisian Debut
- 105. Europe Makes a Discovery
- 106. The Wind of the Old New World
- 107. Farewell to the Senate
- 108. Encounter with Pushkin
- 109. The Verse Underlined by a Young Suicide
- 110. Love and Phlebitis
- 111. Conversation with Exiles
- 112. Italian Interlude
- 113. The Two-headed Woman
- 114. Polygamy and Disinformation
- 115. Welcome at Home
- 116. The Intellectuals Gather
- 117. Joy and Sadness of Sofré the Bird
- 118. Tales and Tallies
- 119. The Prize Adventure
- 120. Donations, Foundations, and Equivocations
- VII. Narrator of Himself
- 121. Fifty Hurrahs and Two Condemnations
- 122. Houses and Women
- 123. The Breakup
- 124. The Invisible Man Makes an Appearance
- 125. The War of Less Than a Hundred Years
- 126. Exchanging Titles
- 127. Neruda Yes, Neruda No
- 128. Clear Days and Cloudy Ones
- 129. Sebastiana and Wine Pitchers
- 130. The Party Man
- 131. Epistles
- 132. A Forgotten Heroine
- 133. Earthquake in His Childhood Land
- 134. History’s Bearded Men
- 135. The Joking Bird
- 136. Outlines
- 137. Airy and Earthly Poetry
- 138. Mysterious Simultaneity of Ideas
- 139. Three-dimensional Man
- 140. With the Turk and the Spaniard
- 141. Civil Registry Official
- 142. The Burden of Fame
- 143. Summing Up and Self-analysis
- 144. His Companion William Shakespeare
- 145. Feet Blue with Cold
- 146. The Book of the Bountiful Table
- 147. Kites
- 148. The Impersonator
- 149. Paparazzi Ire at the Nuptial Hour
- 150. The Mythical Bandit
- 151. Jorge Sanhueza
- 152. Real Birds and Riddle Birds
- 153. The House with the Blue Flag
- 154. The Lilt of the Barcarole
- 155. The Mapuche Trutruca Horn and the Troubadour
- 156. The Shell Collector
- 157. A Bit of Philosophy
- 158. Standard Bearer
- 159. An Unusual Campaign
- 160. A Deaf Old Man with an Accordion
- 161. The Poet and His Century
- 162. Interdisciplinary Madmen
- 163. The City of the Caesars
- 164. Stones, Wait for Me!
- 165. Midnight Speech and Morning Conversation
- VIII. The Song of the Ancient Mariner
- 166. Upsetting News
- 167. The Swedish Decision
- 168. Flashbulb Time
- 169. Jubilation at Home
- 170. Red Corpuscles
- 171. Revelation
- 172. A Castle in the Air
- 173. Futurism’s Sister
- 174. The Albatross Country
- 175. Projects and Relapses
- 176. Araucanian Stone
- 177. The Cantalao Dream
- 178. Tapestries of the Poor
- 179. Revised Dedications
- 180. On Alert
- 181. The Overcoat
- 182. Posthumous Work
- 183. Memoirs and Manuscripts
- 184. Farewell
- 185. Death in the Midst of Death
- 186. The Errant Coffin
- 187. Unwelcome Visitors
- 188. The Cortege
- 189. Until We Meet Again!
- 190. It So Happens I Will Live On
- 191. Postscript of 12 July 1984
- 192. Six Months Later
- V. His Discovery of America
- Notes
- Index of Names
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