Bombal, Loreto, 203–4, 210
Bombal, María Luisa, 234
in Buenos Aires, 203, 208–9, 213, 215
Neruda’s relationship with, 203–4, 208–10, 213, 438
Borges, Jorge Luis, 148–51, 206, 243n, 469
Bowers, Claude, 254, 332
Brazil, 31, 63, 350, 375n, 488
Neruda’s trips to, 326, 416, 449–50
Prestes incident and, 306–7, 326
Breton, André, 125–26
Bru, Roser, 481
Bucharest, 381, 387, 389, 391, 394
Budapest, 361, 435–36
Buddhism, 157, 172–73, 185–87
Buenos Aires, 117, 148–49, 162, 218–19, 230, 231n, 275, 365, 393, 395
and Neruda’s flight from Chile, 354–55
Neruda’s life in, 203–15, 225, 233, 274, 438
social life in, 204, 206–7, 209–11, 215, 226
Bulnes, Lala, 347
Bulnes, Raúl, 347–48
Buñuel, Luis, 224, 227, 256, 375n
Burma, 145
Neruda’s trip to, 148, 150, 155–56, 159–60, 163–66, 172, 185, 177n, 275
women in, 155–56, 163–65, 178
Burmese Days (Orwell), 165
Cabezón, Isaías, 219, 247–48
Calvo Sotelo, José, 248, 250–51
Candia, Micaela, 15–16, 19–20, 22–23, 28
Candia Malverde, Trinidad (stepmother), 19–25, 121, 164, 185, 231
death of, 278–79
married life of, 22–23, 25, 34
and Neruda’s childhood and adolescence, 27, 35, 37, 39
Neruda’s finances and, 92, 124
Neruda’s marriages and, 195, 273
Neruda’s poetry and, 39–40, 278
Neruda’s relationship with, 22, 27, 39–40, 278
Capri, 393, 395–97, 415
Caracas, 334, 406, 427
Cárdenas, Lázaro, 290, 307
Carpentier, Alejo, 246–47, 268, 441
Residence and, 199–200
Castillo, José, 250
Castro, Fidel, 8, 427–30, 440
Allende and, 452, 456–57, 596n
Cuban Revolution and, 427, 429–30, 460
Catholics, Catholic Church, 24, 65, 78, 98n, 305, 479, 488
Spain and, 219, 222–23, 255–56
caves du Vatican, Les (The Vatican Cellars) (Gide), 78
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 290n, 457–60, 489n, 493, 601n
Cerio, Edwin, 393, 397
Cernuda, Luis, 223, 238, 253, 300
Ceylon, 155, 163, 166, 168, 171–79, 185–86, 188–90, 202, 207
Chascona, La, 4–6, 10, 417, 419, 421, 480–81, 489–90, 494
“Chasing Your (Josie) Bliss” (Kantor), 164–65
Chatterton, Thomas, 75
Chile:
agriculture in, 15, 17, 21, 348, 461
censorship in, 10, 334–35
centennial of, 45, 47
commerce of, 15, 21, 156, 192, 194, 350, 460, 468
coups in, 1–2, 9–10, 195, 458–61, 477–80, 483, 491, 493–94, 600n
economy of, 17, 45–46, 65–66, 192, 194–95, 198, 200, 206, 321–23, 329, 332, 397, 456–58, 460–61, 465, 468–72, 487
elections in, 48, 65–66, 195, 274, 277, 280, 320, 323–24, 327–28, 330–31, 399–401, 452–54, 456–61, 477, 487–89, 491, 596n
employment in, 194–95, 321–22
folklore of, 114, 156
immigration to, 17, 281
importance of poetry in, 53, 92, 517–21
Independence Day in, 368–69, 419, 479
mining in, 15, 17, 44–45, 70–71, 194, 320–21, 323–24, 326–27, 329–30, 332–335, 342, 468, 470
Neruda’s flight from, 8, 338–39, 346–55, 358–59, 379–80, 377
politics in, 1–3, 10, 17–18, 43, 45–48, 65–67, 71, 109, 195, 198, 246, 262–63, 266, 274, 276, 281–83, 289, 294–95, 317, 320–25, 328–35, 337, 343, 359, 377, 380, 397–401, 440, 452–54, 456–61, 464–67, 470–71, 474–78, 481, 483–84, 486–91, 493, 500
religion in, 46, 78, 98n, 488
strikes, demonstrations, and violence in, 1–2, 65, 109, 221–22, 322–23, 326–27, 329–30, 332–34, 470–71, 475–80, 487–88, 491, 494, 502
student movement in, 65–71, 77, 79, 86
workers’ movement in, 45, 65–67, 70–71, 79, 321–23, 326–35, 342, 346, 397–98, 431, 453, 456, 470
Chile, University of, 81, 318, 345, 400
Neruda’s enrollment at, 5, 75–77, 95–96, 156
Pedagogy Institute at, 75, 95, 97, 107, 124, 156
student movement at, 65–68, 70–71, 77, 79, 81–82, 96, 107, 130, 159
Chilean Communist Party, 8, 235, 342, 344, 361, 375n, 414, 430, 440, 491–93
Allende’s presidential campaigns and, 400–401
anti-communism and, 330, 332, 334
Chilean politics and, 320, 322–24
elections and, 330–31, 452–53
and Neruda’s flight from Chile, 346–47
Neruda’s politics and, 218, 295, 326, 330, 398, 412–13, 433
Chiloé, 130–33, 135, 137, 140
Chinese, China, 180, 201, 377, 451
Neruda’s criticisms of, 433–34
Neruda’s trips to, 157, 360, 381, 390, 394–95, 434
Church Committee, 458
City Lights Books, 6, 379n, 428, 509, 511–12, 514, 516
Claridad (Clarity), 65, 67–71, 80–85, 89, 112, 144, 242
Neruda published by, 69–71, 80, 82–85, 92–93, 97–101, 103, 124, 129, 138, 155, 236, 336
Cofré, Charo, 479
Cohen, Leonard, 509
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 179, 181, 183
Colombo, 155, 171–72, 175, 186, 189, 197–98, 203
Comiendo en Hungría (Eating in Hungary) (Neruda and Asturias), 436, 439n
Communists, communism, 66, 86, 225, 245–46, 267, 297–99, 324–26, 345–46, 348, 363, 366, 377, 440–41, 452–56, 596n
Allende’s politics and, 459–60
anti–communism and, 325, 330–35, 338–39, 379
Champagne, 7, 454–55
Chilean elections and, 452–53
Chilean politics and, 3, 294–95, 324–25, 328–35, 397, 399–401, 452, 460–61, 464, 471
Chilean workers’ movement and, 329, 331–33, 335
and Neruda’s flight from Chile, 351, 354–55
Neruda’s politics and, 7, 149–50, 183–84, 217–18, 246, 273–74, 291, 299, 315, 329–30, 341, 343, 361, 369, 381–82, 398, 402, 408, 418, 424, 430, 433–34, 436, 438, 441, 455–56, 466–67, 496, 499
Neruda’s second wife’s politics and, 227–28, 418
Neruda’s third wife’s family and, 386–87
purges of, 385, 411
Spanish Civil War and, 251, 271, 281–82
Spanish politics and, 222–23, 248–50
Spanish refugee crisis and, 281–82, 284
Trotsky’s assassination and, 289–90
U.S. politics and, 436–37, 439
World Congress and, 359–60
World War II and, 301–2
Concepción, 90, 101–2, 106, 109, 122–23, 130, 148, 196–97
Concha, Jaime, 406
Cóndon, Alfredo, 153, 163, 199
Coney Island of the Mind, A (Ferlinghetti), 428, 432
Congress, U.S., 254n, 333, 358–60, 379, 458–60
Contreras Labarca, Carlos, 295, 347
Corriel, José, 372, 374
Cortázar, Julio, 117, 466, 469, 471–72
Cousiño, Matías, 44
Craib, Raymond, 86–87
Cruchaga Santa María, Ángel, 191, 198
Cruz, Quique, 502
Cuba, 199, 221, 228, 246, 252, 375n, 400, 427–31, 438, 451, 474, 596n
Chilean elections and, 456–57
Neruda’s trips to, 361, 428–30
Neruda’s U.S. trip and, 440–41
revolution in, 8, 427, 429–31, 440, 442, 459–60
Cunard, Nancy, 267–69, 283, 375n
Czechoslovakia, 63, 298, 333, 365, 375, 385, 387, 390, 448–51
Dante Alighieri, 63n, 243n, 372
Darío, Rubén, 153, 179n, 213–14, 229–30
de Costa, René, 49, 115, 126, 397
de Ercilla, Alonso, 53, 517, 519–20
de Falla, Manuel, 255
de Ibarbourou, Juana, 115
Délano, Luis Enrique, 202n, 257–58, 343–44
del Carril Iraeta, Delia “la Hormiga” (second wife), 4, 256, 298, 337, 377
Asian travels of, 360, 390
Central and South American travels of, 226, 275, 291–92, 295, 301, 306, 310–11, 318, 361, 367, 381, 393, 416, 420
European travels of, 225–29, 246–48, 250, 266, 281, 360–61, 381, 384–89, 392–93, 414, 416, 418, 420
finances of, 275, 318, 386
flight from Chile of, 338–39
hiding of, 342–45, 347, 402
at Isla Negra, 288–89, 422
Neruda’s breakup with, 367, 418–20
Neruda’s exile and, 357, 360, 381
and Neruda’s flight from Chile, 347–50
Neruda’s illness and, 367, 369–71
Neruda’s letters to, 266, 275, 350, 418
Neruda’s marriage to, 306, 347–48, 361, 368, 384–85
Neruda’s relationship with, 225–28, 230, 234–35, 246–47, 250, 266–67, 274–75, 280, 287–89, 295, 306, 345, 347–48, 365, 367–68, 381, 386–89, 392–94, 399, 401–2, 415, 417–19, 435, 463
physical appearance of, 228, 246, 273, 318, 342
politics of, 225, 227–28, 275, 305, 367, 386–87, 402, 413, 418, 420
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