“worthy of crime fiction”: Among other reports, González, Alejandro. “Caso Neruda: ¿Quién es el Doctor Price?” 24horas, May 30, 2013, http://www.24horas.cl/nacional/caso-neruda-quien-es-el-doctor-price--671677.
“results mean that there is no”: Among other sources, “Expertos descartan que Pablo Neruda haya sido envenenado,” CNN Español, November 8, 2013, http://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2013/11/08/expertos-descartan-que-pablo-neruda-haya-sido-envenenado/.
“it is clearly possible”: Brief addressed to Judge Mario Carroza Espinosa of the Appellate Court of Santiago on behalf of the Interior Ministry’s Human Rights Program, March 25, 2015. Available at https://ep00.epimg.net/descargables/2015/11/05/5d1ddae7d84b280f588c8dfc710c87d1.pdf?rel=mas.
“No Foul Play”: Lopez, Erik. “No Foul Play in Death of Chilean Poet Neruda, Researchers Say,” Reuters, May 28, 2015, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-chile-neruda-idUSKBN0OD1QD20150528.
one last pathogen: They are testing for Staphylococcus aureus, which had been found in his remains. As it is not directly associated with cancer, speculation arose that Neruda may have received a lethal injection containing lab-manufactured staph. Yet even in modern hospitals, natural deaths from staph infections continue to occur. A needle tip that just happens to have staph on it can be deadly when injected into a patient whose immune system is suppressed due to cancer, pneumonia, or other disease.
“rule out or prove”: Doctor Aurelio Luna, a Spanish forensic specialist from the University of Murcia, as quoted in multiple sources, including “Neruda no murió producto del cáncer de próstata, concluyeron los peritos,” Cooperativa.cl (Santiago), October 20, 2017. http://www.cooperativa.cl/noticias/cultura/literatura/pablo-neruda/neruda-no-murio-producto-del-cancer-de-prostata-concluyeron-los-peritos/2017-10-20/170817.html.
in “100% agreement”: Ibid.
a state he was clearly not in: Author correspondence with panelist Debi Poinar, a fellow research associate at the McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, October 29, 2017.
do not believe he died from the Staphylococcus aureus: Author correspondence and conversation with Debi Poinar, October 26–30, 2017.
“a long history”: Author correspondence with Debi Poinar, October 26, 2017.
“enable us to rule in”: Author conversation with Hendrik Poinar, the McMaster Ancient DNA Centre’s Principal Investigator (and husband of Debi Poinar), October 28, 2017.
Neruda’s role as the people’s poet: Conway, Diana. “Neruda, Skármeta, and Ardiente paciencia,” Confluencia 7, no. 2 (Spring 1992): 141.
Politics are treated vaguely: Hodgson, Irene B. “The De-Chileanization of Neruda in Il postino,” in Pablo Neruda and the U.S. Culture Industry, ed. Teresa Longo (New York: Routledge, 2002), 104.
In 2010, the renowned Plácido: Johnson, Reed. “L.A. Opera to Deliver ‘Il postino’ Premiere on Thursday,” Los Angeles Times, September 19, 2010, http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/19/entertainment/la-ca-daniel-catan-20100919.
“because they hit you”: Author interview with Jorge Rodríguez, 2003.
“a component of our nationality”: Lagos Escobar, Ricardo. Prologue to Centenario de Neruda. Available at Archivo Chile, http://www.archivochile.com/Homenajes/neruda/sobre_neruda/homenajepneruda0020.pdf.
“has touched so many different”: Quoted in “Celebran los 100 de Neruda,” La Opinión, July 12, 2004.
“sign in some sense”: Author interview with Ariel Dorfman, 2004.
“because I felt it was a way”: Dorfman, Ariel. “Words That Pulse Among Madrid’s Dead,” Los Angeles Times, March 21, 2004.
“You would have no idea”: Seipp, Catherine. “Times Never Changes,” National Review, April 1, 2004, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/210108/times-never-changes.
“In some magnetic way”: “El mar” [“The Sea”], Memorial de Isla Negra. Note that this is a different poem from the previously quoted “The Sea” here.
“Let us look for secret things”: “No me hagan caso” [“Forget About Me”], Estravagario.
“Lazybones”: “El perezoso,” Estravagario. Translated by Jessica Powell.
APPENDIX II: ON THE IMPORTANCE OF POETRY IN CHILE
“Chile has an extraordinary history”: Guibert, “Pablo Neruda,” 64–65.
The use of nature as the protagonist: Edwards, “A Conversation with Forrest Gander and Raúl Zurita.”
“very humble origins”: Author interview with Rodrigo Rojas, June 15, 2015.
Index
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Adíos, poeta (Edwards),449
African Americans, 358–59, 445–46
Aguirre, Margarita, 192, 338, 401, 443
Aguirre, Socrates, 204
Aguirre Cerda, Pedro, 274, 277, 280–83, 289, 294
Ai Qing, 433
Alberti, Rafael, 199, 223, 227–28, 234–35, 238, 248, 253, 256, 299–300, 319, 375n, 491
Spanish Civil War and, 259, 261, 268
Alegría, Fernando, 469
Aleixandre, Vicente, 232–34, 238, 253, 300
Spanish Civil War and, 259, 268–69
Alessandri, Arturo, 66, 195, 266, 336, 338, 456
Alessandri, Jorge, 456–57, 479
Alfonso XIII, king of Spain, 221–22, 249n
Allende, Isabel, 9–10, 503
Allende, Salvador, 8, 283, 451
coup against, 1, 9, 458–61, 477–78, 483
death of, 1, 478, 598n
politics of, 1, 48, 456–57, 459–60
presidency of, 48, 378n, 456, 460–61, 464, 466, 468, 470–71, 474–78
presidential campaigns of, 1–2, 399–401, 452–53, 456–59, 461, 596n
Alliance of Anti–Fascist Intellectuals for the Defense of Culture, 251–53, 261, 271, 274, 276
Altolaguirre, Manuel, 240, 259, 300, 305
Alviso, Amelia, 48, 56, 97, 123, 148
Amado, Jorge, 326, 395, 416
American Continental Peace Congress, 361–68
amores de Neruda, Los (The Loves of Neruda) (Cardone), 163
Anahuacalli, 370–71
Ancud, 130–32
Antofagasta, 320, 322, 324, 330, 346, 366
Antúnez, Nemesio, 383–85
Aragon, Louis, 227, 245–46, 252, 267, 358, 375n
Araucana, La (de Ercilla), 519–20
Araya, Manuel, 492, 600n
Arce, Homero, 109, 175, 401, 432, 480
Arenal, Angélica, 291, 295
Arévalo, Hugo, 479, 503
Argentina, 21, 117, 148–49, 158, 162–63, 188, 199–200, 225–26, 250, 317–18, 333, 342, 366, 368, 371–72, 476, 488
and Neruda’s flight from Chile, 338–39, 346, 348, 351, 354–55
Neruda’s life in, 202–7, 209
Arrué, Laura, 107–9, 113, 122–23, 131, 132n, 136–37, 140, 147, 174–75, 446
Asturias, Miguel Ángel, 295–96, 355, 435–36, 439n
Auden, W. H., 259, 269
aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge, Die (The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge) (Rilke), 79
Ávila Camacho, Manuel, 294, 298
Aymaran music, 518
Azaña, Manuel, 249
Azócar, Adelina, 97
Azócar, Albertina Rosa, 95–109, 191
Neruda’s letters to, 101–6, 119, 121–23, 131, 137, 143, 148, 167, 174–76, 196–97, 220
Neruda’s marriage and, 196–97
Neruda’s nicknames for, 102, 104n
Neruda’s relationship with, 95–107, 113, 118–19, 121–23, 130–31, 137, 140, 143, 147–48, 166, 174–76, 186, 197–98, 446
Twenty Love Poems and, 95, 101–4, 106–7, 109, 118–19, 123
Azócar, Rubén, 130–32, 274, 375n
Neruda’s finances and, 124, 130, 132
Neruda’s hiding and, 344–45
Neruda’s relationship with, 95–97, 106, 121–22, 124, 127–28, 130, 132, 135
venture and, 127–28
Aztecs, 316, 374–76
“Bad Poet, Bad Man” (Schwartz), 290
Barcelona, 221–22
Neruda’s trips to, 217, 219, 223, 454
Spanish Civil War and, 251, 266, 271, 279
Spanish politics and, 249–50
Barraca, La, 247, 253n
Barrios, Eduardo, 111, 123
Batavia, 189–90, 192, 205, 270
Baudelaire, Charles, 59, 76, 143, 179–80, 183, 384, 401, 423
Belaúnde Terry, Fernando, 440
Belén, 14, 19–22
Bellet, Jorge, 346–51, 353–54
Benda, Julien, 363
Bergamín, José, 235, 299–301, 305
Berlin, 381, 387, 398, 435
Bianchi, Manuel, 145–46, 351
Bianchi, Victor, 351, 353–54
Bliss, Josie, 194
Neruda’s invention of, 163–65, 167
Neruda’s relationship with, 163–69, 176, 178
Bloom, Harold, 243
Blum, Léon, 253–54, 279
Bolivia, 9, 66,
