London, 74, 172, 269, 302, 335, 361
Neruda’s trips to, 426n, 454, 462–63
London, Artur, 385
Lorca, Federico García, 234, 238, 240, 292, 300, 305n, 318, 402, 446
Darío honored by, 213–14, 229–30
death of, 68, 212, 256–57, 263, 267–69
and inauguration of public monuments, 229–30
Neruda’s lecture on, 261–62
Neruda’s relationship with, 211–15, 218, 223–25, 229, 235, 242, 247n, 250, 254, 256–57, 263–64, 266–67
politics of, 247, 250
sexuality of, 212, 227, 250, 255
Spanish Civil War and, 254–57, 267–69
theater group of, 247, 253n
and violence in Spain, 250–51, 254
Lorrain, Jean, 64
Losada, Gonzalo, 365, 395–96, 432, 446
Lota, 44, 47, 101, 333, 342
Loyola, Hernán, 55, 63n, 246
MacLeish, Archibald, 304, 437
Madrid, 89n, 163, 167, 218, 293, 446
and inauguration of public monuments, 229–30
Lorca in, 247, 250
Neruda’s trips to, 151–52, 223–30, 232–33, 244–48, 250, 254, 263–64, 267, 272
Spanish Civil War and, 251–52, 254, 257, 262–64, 266, 268, 270–72, 279–80, 501
Spanish politics and, 222, 249–50
violence in, 250–52, 254, 501
Mapuche, 15–18, 29–30, 43–44, 53, 56, 58, 81, 294, 346, 349, 467, 517–19
Chilean politics and, 460–61
discrimination against, 18, 29, 43, 47
Maquieira, Tulio, 224, 266–69
Martino, César, 309
Martner, María, 424, 469–70, 473
Marxists, Marxism, 45, 322, 372, 460
Allende’s politics and, 1, 48, 457n, 459
Neruda’s politics and, 177–78, 217, 374
Neruda’s second wife’s politics and, 227, 387
Mason, Charles Sumner, 15–20, 22–23, 28–29, 34–35, 43, 68
Mason, Orlando (uncle), 19, 28, 56, 64, 279, 336n
Neruda’s relationship with, 43–47, 50
Mason, Telésfora, 19, 28, 68, 336n
Mayans, 372–76
“Me alquilo para soñar” (“Dreamer for Rent”) (García Márquez), 454
Mexicans, Mexico, 89, 124, 130, 268, 316–18, 381, 384, 414–15, 423, 438, 444–45, 600n
Canto General’s release and, 370–72, 375–77
Neruda offered asylum by, 338, 480, 491–92
Neruda’s life in, 284, 288–95, 298–302, 304, 306–11, 318, 359–69, 371, 375, 380, 392, 403, 440
Neruda’s third wife and, 366, 389–90
Prestes incident and, 307, 326
Spanish Civil War and, 252, 254
Trotsky in, 289–91, 371
Michoacán, La, 318–20, 366, 399, 401–2, 418, 420, 435
Miller, Arthur, 436–37, 468–69
Miller, Henry, 358, 362–63
Milosz, Czeslaw, 413–14
Miranda, María Lucía, 499
Mistral, Gabriela, 58–59, 80, 89, 279, 330, 375n, 439n, 486, 498, 517
Neruda’s relationship with, 59, 111
private letters of, 244–45
Modotti, Tina, 299, 305
Morales, Natalia (grandmother), 14, 20
Morla Lynch, Carlos, 163, 199, 223, 228, 230, 238–39, 244, 247, 250, 266, 305, 327
Morocco, Spanish, 221, 251, 255
Mosalvez, Leoné, 350
Moscow, 218, 248, 290n, 383, 449
Neruda’s trips to, 360, 381, 392, 414, 435, 454, 469
Muñoz, Diego, 237, 375n, 377
Neruda’s love life and, 107, 196, 227–28, 418–19
Neruda’s relationship with, 82, 90–92, 116, 148, 196, 227–28, 273–74, 319, 419
Murga, Romeo, 77
Murieta, Joaquín, 444–46
Nascimento, Carlos George, 124, 126n, 132–33, 135, 200–201, 365
Twenty Love Poems and, 110–11, 117, 123
Neftalí Basoalto Opazo, Rosa (mother), 20–21, 23, 25, 72, 106, 159
Neruda, Pablo (Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto):
Asian travels of, 145–46, 148, 150, 155–60, 162–69, 171–81, 183–98, 201–3, 205, 207, 263, 270, 275, 317, 360, 368, 381, 390, 394–95, 402–3, 434
asylum offers of, 338, 480, 491–92
awards and honors of, 5, 9, 53, 60, 64, 69, 81–82, 96, 107, 135, 152–53, 213–14, 218, 223, 225, 238–39, 273, 290, 300–301, 309–10, 325, 352–53, 355, 370, 383–84, 397, 415–16, 425, 426n, 440, 447, 454–55, 466–68, 471, 473–74, 490, 497, 501
birthdays of, 50, 56, 62, 148, 150, 250, 400, 426n, 452, 464, 469, 483
birth of, 8, 21–22, 45, 72, 348
centennial of, 6, 8, 492, 499–504
Central and South American travels of, 202–15, 218, 225, 233, 274, 284, 288–302, 304, 306–11, 317–18, 326, 354–55, 359–69, 371, 375, 380–81, 392, 398, 403, 416, 427–28, 438, 440, 449–50, 454–55, 455n–56n
childhood and adolescence of, 19, 21–22, 24, 27–51, 53–64, 68–71, 73–94, 100, 102, 106, 115, 122, 131, 133, 235, 240, 242, 262, 278, 315–16, 345, 347–50, 366, 368, 373, 391, 401–3, 419, 423, 429, 431, 439n, 451, 474, 517–19
collecting of, 4–5, 28, 292, 301, 319, 366, 384, 400, 423, 429, 431–32, 474, 490
connection with nature of, 32–33, 55, 102, 350–51
creativity of, 28, 33, 43, 107, 124–25, 128, 132, 138, 160, 238, 278, 318, 406
death of, 1–3, 9–10, 117, 209, 234, 390, 418–19, 438, 447, 479–83, 486, 489–95, 600n–601n
diplomatic postings of, 144–46, 148, 155, 162–63, 166, 168, 171–81, 185–93, 195, 197–200, 202–9, 213–15, 224–25, 245–46, 258, 266, 269–70, 272, 275, 280–81, 284, 288–91, 294–95, 298, 304, 306–8, 318, 351, 371, 400, 402, 464–71
divorces of, 306, 327, 367, 418–20
documentary on, 8–9, 502–4
education of, 5, 34, 36–39, 43, 48, 51, 54, 58–60, 63–64, 68, 71, 74–77, 80, 82–83, 92, 95–96, 124, 126n, 131, 156, 171, 236, 419, 424
European travels of, 150–55, 199, 215, 217–21, 223–30, 232–33, 238–42, 244–48, 250–51, 254, 257–59, 263–68, 272–74, 277–78, 280–81, 288, 317, 357–62, 381–85, 387–98, 400, 402, 413–16, 422, 426n, 428, 435–36, 454, 456, 462–72
exhumation of body of, 491, 493
exile of, 8, 357–61, 365, 369–70, 377, 380–81, 392–93, 396n, 400, 407, 413, 496
finances of, 74, 83, 85, 90, 92, 108, 119, 121–24, 128, 130–32, 135, 142–44, 148, 151, 154, 162, 192–93, 197–200, 204, 224, 246, 266, 270, 275, 285, 295, 298, 306, 318, 327, 338, 369, 374, 381–84, 416, 424, 431–32, 467
flight from Chile of, 8, 338–39, 346–55, 358–59, 377, 379–80
funerals of, 1–3, 9–10, 481–82, 486, 491, 495
heritage of, 34, 80, 268, 373
hiding of, 8, 342–48, 350–51, 402
houses of, 4–6, 9–10, 27–29, 35–36, 142, 289, 317–20, 399, 401–2, 415–19, 421–23, 431–32, 444, 449, 455, 463–64, 466–67, 469–73, 475, 479–81, 486–87, 489–92, 494, 500, 503–4, 600n
illnesses and injuries of, 1, 37, 41, 131, 175, 298, 367–71, 380–81, 385, 392, 401–2, 414, 447–48, 452, 454, 464–74, 476, 478–80, 483–84, 491–93, 495n, 597n, 600n
injections of, 480, 492–94, 600n
interested in indigenous people, 29–30, 47, 371, 374
interviews of, 58, 63, 150, 185, 308, 316, 325, 361, 378n, 380, 399, 401, 403–4, 422, 519
isolation and solitude of, 23, 41, 77, 99, 148–49, 159, 172, 174–75, 180, 188, 193–94, 230
lawsuits of, 335–36, 338, 368, 416
legacy of, 7, 10, 439, 473–74, 489, 496–98, 502
love life of, 41–42, 48, 54–58, 72, 91, 95–107, 112–13, 118, 121–23, 128, 130–31, 132n, 136–37, 140, 147–48, 163–69, 174–76, 186–87, 190–97, 203–4, 210, 212, 220, 226–28, 230, 234, 246–47, 266–67, 274–75, 280, 365–68, 381–82, 384–99, 402, 414–22, 424–26, 431–32, 435, 446, 463–64, 472–73, 480, 498, 503
marriages of, 4, 190–97, 205–6, 209–11, 215, 226, 228, 230, 247, 270, 273, 284, 306, 338, 347–48, 361, 367–68, 384–85, 435, 443–44
masks of, 201–2, 229, 272
melancholy of, 29, 35–39,
