They stopped only for gas: Varas, Neruda clandestino, 145.
They took a boat across: Lago, Ojos y oídos, 128.
“they lit a bonfire”: Ibid., 127. Also available in OC, 5:978–980.
Leoné Mosalvez was fifteen years old: Testimony told to Manuel Basoalto in Varas, Neruda clandestino, 153.
“You’re a man I’ve”: Ibid., 159–160.
Neruda carried all the pages: Aguirre, Genio y figura de Pablo Neruda, 199.
Bianchi claimed that he also: Ibid., 173.
volume about the birds of Chile: Pablo Neruda interview by Sun Axelsson, SVT (Swedish TV), Paris, December 1971.
“alongside my inscrutable colleagues”: “Pablo Neruda—Nobel Lecture: Towards the Splendid City,” December 13, 1971, NobelPrize.org, http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1971/neruda-lecture.html.
“the wound set the poet’s sentimentalism”: Varas, Neruda clandestino, 191.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: EXILE AND MATILDE
“I End Here (1949)”: “Aquí termino (1949),” Canto general.
Pablo Picasso found him: Schidlowsky, Las furias y las penas (2008), 2:780.
“to unite all the active forces”: World Peace Congress. World Peace Congress leaflet, 1949, W. E. B. Du Bois Papers (MS 312), Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries. Available at http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b126-i237.
Du Bois noted the diversity: Du Bois, W. E. B. “The World Peace Congress and Colored Peoples,” 1949, W. E. B. Du Bois Papers (MS 312), Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries. Available at http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b159-i430.
“due to the difficulties I had”: Sanhueza, Jorge. “Neruda 1949,” Anales de la Universidad de Chile, nos. 157–160 (January–December 1971): 198.
“Neruda was like the conscience”: Fast, Howard. “Neruda en el Congreso Mundial para La Paz,” Pro arte, June 9, 1949. Quoted in Sanhueza, “Neruda 1949.”
“a hundred people were asking him”: Ibid.
“Paul Robeson, a Negro and a Communist”: Report on the Communist “Peace” Offensive: A Campaign to Disarm and Defeat the United States, prepared by the Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., April 1, 1951. Available at https://archive.org/details/reportoncommunis00unit.
“efforts are being made”: Airgram sent from C. Burke Elbrick, counselor of U.S. embassy in Cuba, to secretary of state (Dean Acheson), August 26, 1949, from the National Archives’ General Records of the Department of State 1945–1949, file document 825.00B/8-2449, provided to author by the Textual Records Division of the National Archives in College Park, MD.
“None of those pages had”: OC, 4:764.
“If hyenas could type”: OC, 4:765.
words that brought the Eastern Bloc: Crossley, Robert. Olaf Stapledon: Speaking for the Future (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994), 359.
“erotic obsessions”: Quote is by Roger Garaudy, as seen in, among others, Caute, David. The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War (Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 310.
“Is that fair”: Caute, David. The Fellow-Travellers: Intellectual Friends of Communism (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988), 315.
Neruda seemed sincere: Sanhueza, “Neruda 1949,” 204.
“In the throes of death”: OC, 4:765.
“when Fadeyev said in his Wrocław speech”: OC, 4:765.
“Walt Whitman once wrote”: Neruda, Let the Rail Splitter Awake and Other Poems (New York: Masses & Mainstream, Inc., 1950), 5.
However, as Jorge Sanhueza: Sanhueza, “Neruda 1949,” 205.
Elsewhere, within a decade: Ibid., 206.
According to Volodia Teitelboim: Teitelboim, Neruda: La biografía, 297–298.
“Let the Rail-Splitter Awake”: Neruda, Let the Rail Splitter Awake, 39.
in the end they extended their trip: Neruda, Pablo. Cartas de amor: Cartas a Matilde Urrutia (1950–1973), ed. Darío Oses (Barcelona: Seix Barral, 2010).
Neruda was aroused by Matilde: Author interview with the writer Francisco Velasco, 2008.
“Women follow in Pablo’s”: Sáez, La Hormiga, 145.
He wasn’t a great seducer: Author interview with Inés Valenzuela, July 2003.
If Delia suspected: Sáez, La Hormiga, 156.
according to an account: Sanhueza, “Neruda 1949,” 207.
guests were given: Olivares Briones, Pablo Neruda: Los caminos de América, 737–742.
“has no illusions about Neruda”: Schidlowsky, Las furias y las penas (2008), 2:809–810.
“This book is agitating me”: Olivares Briones, Pablo Neruda: Los caminos de América, 749–750.
“As he still can’t go down the stairs”: Reyes, Neruda: Retrato de familia, 152.
“Right now his bed”: Olivares Briones, Pablo Neruda: Los caminos de América, 747.
it served as a monument: Herrera, Hayden. Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (1983; New York: HarperCollins, 1984), 312.
return “to the people”: Suckaer, Ingrid. “Diego Rivera: Biografía,” Museo Anahuacalli, http://www.museoanahuacalli.org.mx/diegorivera/index.html.
Rivera had influenced Neruda’s interest: Felstiner, Translating Neruda, 186. Felstiner also astutely points out the influence of José Uriel García, the historian who took Neruda to Machu Picchu, in inspiring his interest in indigenous people and history.
“I’ve been so absorbed”: Olivares Briones, Pablo Neruda: Los caminos de América, 751.
“I live, I still live”: Author interview with Ariel Dorfman, 2004.
José Corriel, a construction engineer: Author interview with José Corriel, 2003.
Canto general—a title: González Echevarría, Roberto. Introduction to Canto general, by Pablo Neruda (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), 6.
This optimism, though, is dependent: Mascia, Mark J. “Pablo Neruda and the Construction of Past and Future Utopias in the Canto general,” Utopian Studies 12, no. 2 (2001): 65–81. Available at http://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/lang_fac/4.
“covering the streets”: CHV, 565.
This directly inspired Neruda’s vision: Author interview with John Felstiner, 2001, and Felstiner, Translating Neruda, 129.
Higher-quality editions: Author interview with Inés Valenzuela, July 2003. Inés helped in the distribution of the clandestine copy.
It’s a call for the spirit: Triunfo, November 13, 1973.
“It struck me like a bomb”: Author interview with Jack Hirschman, 2010.
Yet as he says in the poem: Cardona Peña, Pablo Neruda y otros ensayos, 36–37.
“I had two immense sources of happiness”: Ibid., 37.
However, all this satisfaction: Ibid., 38, and Salerno, “Alone y Neruda,” 324.
He was impressed by the poems: Alone. “Neruda,” El Mercurio, September 7, 1947. Quoted ibid., 324–327.
Neruda was struck by: Cardona Peña, Pablo Neruda y otros ensayos, 40–41.
the two spent time in Prague: Hernán Loyola lists the stops in OC, 1:1223–1224.
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