death of, 305–6
illness of, 231, 234, 270, 416, 500
life in Holland of, 270, 279, 284
Neruda’s neglect of, 284–85
Spanish Civil War and, 265–66, 270, 273
Spanish politics and, 249–50
Reyes Hermosilla, José Angel (grandfather), 14–15, 18, 22, 25
Reyes Morales, José del Carmen (father), 13–15, 17–25, 85, 121, 130–31, 142–44, 185
childhood and adolescence of, 13–14, 20
finances of, 36, 74, 83, 92
homes of, 27–28
illness and death of, 275–76, 278–79
life in Temuco of, 17–20, 22–25, 64
married life of, 20–23, 25
Mason’s relationship with, 15, 19, 22–23, 29
and Neruda’s childhood and
adolescence, 27, 29–35, 39, 41, 54, 60–61
Neruda’s education and, 34, 74–75, 83, 92, 124, 131
Neruda’s marriages and, 190–91, 195
Neruda’s poetry and, 39, 60–61, 63, 92, 110, 131, 276
Neruda’s relationship with, 21, 27, 29–31, 34, 39, 41, 60–62, 71, 93, 106, 110, 131, 144, 276, 279
railroad employment of, 29–32, 36, 48, 96, 349
Tolrá’s relationship with, 15, 21–25, 130
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 79, 364
Rimbaud, Arthur, 59, 126n, 143, 173, 384, 467–68
Rivera, Diego, 5, 115, 246, 293, 358
Canto General and, 369–72, 374–76
Robeson, Paul, 168, 358–60, 383, 407
Rodríguez, Jorge, 498–99
Rodríguez, José, 350
Rodríguez Monegal, Emir, 400, 454
Rojas, Rodrigo, 446, 489
Rojas Jiménez, Alberto, 81, 219–20
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 446–47
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 261
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 254, 261, 297–98, 304, 337
Rueda Martinez, Pedro, 310
Ruiz Alonso, Ramón, 255–56
Saavedra, Loreley, 499–500
Sabat Ercasty, Carlos, 80–81, 94, 109, 112, 198
Sáez, Fernando, 275, 289
Salinas, Pedro, 259
Sánchez Errázuriz, Eulogio, 203–4
Sánchez Ventura, Rafael, 305n
San Fernando, 108, 132n, 136–37
San Francisco, Calif., 140, 379, 497
Neruda’s centennial and, 502–4
Neruda’s trips to, 439–40, 445
Sanfuentes, Juan Luis, 66, 323
San Gregorio massacre, 70–71
Sanhueza, Jorge, 365
Santiago, 1–4, 13, 31, 45, 50–51, 58, 64–65, 85–87, 101, 108–10, 115, 200–201, 202n, 207, 217, 219, 230, 243, 244n, 269, 273–75, 279, 288–89, 305, 309, 321, 366, 372, 397, 433, 453, 464, 489–91, 499
Chilean coup and, 478–79
Neruda’s death and, 1–3, 481, 495n, 601n
and Neruda’s flight from Chile, 338–39, 347–48
Neruda’s hiding in, 343–44
Neruda’s life in, 72–79, 81, 85–86, 89, 92–94, 96, 99–100, 104, 108, 121–24, 130–32, 135, 139–41, 143, 195–96, 203–4, 206, 274–75, 317–20, 399, 401–2, 415–16, 424, 429, 480, 517
Neruda’s play in, 444–46
Neruda’s popularity in, 399–400
politics in, 87, 262–63, 475
social class divisions in, 74, 87
Spanish refugee crisis and, 280–81
student movement and, 65, 67–69, 71, 82
workers’ movement in, 323, 332
Sartre, Jean–Paul, 362–64
Schnake, Óscar, 309
Schneider, René, 458–59
Schweitzer, Daniel, 67
Sebastiana, La, 4, 424–25, 432, 469, 473, 491
Señor Presidente, El (The President) (Asturias), 296
Serani, Alejandro, 64, 71
Shakespeare, William, 79, 179, 384, 446–47
Shehab, Bahia, 497–98
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 260n
Sillen, Samuel, 364–65
Silva Castro, Raúl, 68–69, 129
Sinceridad (Sincerity) (Venegas), 46
Singapore, 155, 178, 180–81, 188–89
Siqueiros, David Alfaro, 115, 466
Canto General and, 369, 371–72, 374–76
Chilean visa of, 294–95, 298
Neruda’s relationship with, 290–91, 294, 371, 375
Spanish Civil War and, 268, 290–91, 371
Trotsky and, 290–91, 371
Skármeta, Antonio, 496, 500
Socialists, socialism, 1–2, 45, 245, 253, 255, 298, 436, 449, 455–56, 481
Allende’s politics and, 1, 48, 459–60
anarchism and, 65–66, 71, 79
Chilean elections and, 452–53, 459
Chilean politics and, 289, 322, 331, 398, 400–401, 460, 488, 500
Neruda’s politics and, 1, 187–88, 273, 362, 382, 397, 408, 414, 451–52
Spanish politics and, 222–23, 249–50
Somoza García, Anastasio, 297
“Song of Myself” (Whitman), 242–43
Soviet Union, 143, 248, 271, 304, 320, 329, 333, 335, 360–63, 365, 371, 375, 377, 383, 397, 411–16, 436, 452, 457, 488
Czechoslovakia invaded by, 449–51
Neruda’s politics and, 218, 290n, 408, 412–14, 450–51
Neruda’s trips to, 360–61, 415–16, 456, 469
Spanish Civil War and, 254–55, 257, 260, 262
Trotsky’s assassination and, 289–91
World Congress and, 358, 360
World War II and, 298, 301–2
“Spain 1937” (Auden), 259, 269
Spanish, Spain, 59–60, 64n, 68, 80, 109, 117, 138, 143, 149–52, 154, 159, 163, 168, 196, 230, 236, 238–45, 291, 298, 301, 304–7, 315, 317, 321, 361, 365, 379, 422, 428, 435, 456, 473, 493, 498
Canto General and, 372–75
coups in, 218n, 248–49
elections in, 222–23, 248–49
and importance of poetry in
Chile, 519–20
Laurel and, 299–300
Lorca and, 211–15, 218, 242, 247, 250–51
Neruda’s departure from, 217, 265, 268
Neruda’s life in, 150–52, 215, 217–18, 220–21, 223–25, 238–42, 251, 257–59, 273–74, 277–78, 288, 454
Neruda’s marriage and, 190–91
Neruda’s poetry readings and, 462–63
Neruda’s politics and, 218, 220, 475
Neruda’s U.S. visit and, 436–37
poetry in, 48, 49n, 79
politics in, 9, 218n, 221–23, 227–28, 241–42, 245, 247–52, 293
protests and violence in, 221–22, 248–51, 254
refugees of, 257, 279–84, 288, 318, 344, 412, 481
religion in, 219, 222–23, 255–56
Residence and, 198–202, 244
war in Morocco of, 221, 251, 255
Spanish Civil War, 8, 218, 220, 222, 233, 241, 245, 251–74, 290–91, 360, 371, 395, 430n, 439n, 475
bombings in, 257, 262, 264, 270–72, 501
casualties in, 255–56, 267–70, 279, 295, 300
final battle in, 279–80
Hemingway and, 252, 260–62, 271
international nonintervention pact on, 254, 256, 279
Neruda’s writings on, 257–59, 262–64, 269, 300, 315, 406
start of, 243, 249, 251–52
Spanish Earth, The, 261
Spender, Stephen, 439n, 456
Stalin, Joseph, 298, 300, 363
death of, 411–12, 451, 501
Neruda’s politics and, 218, 385, 397, 412–14, 434, 450–51
Spanish Civil War and, 360, 412
Trotsky’s assassination and, 289–91
Stalingrad, 8, 301–3, 315, 361
Stalinism, 291, 363, 382, 385, 387, 408, 411–13, 422, 425–26, 434, 451, 501
State Department, U.S., 254n, 303, 335, 369, 436–37, 441, 457n
Storni, Alfonsina, 209
Sub-Terra (Lillo), 44–45
Surrealist Manifesto (Breton), 125–26
Tagore, Rabindranath, 78, 235–39, 240n
Teitelboim, Volodia, 279, 366, 414, 416, 438, 464, 466, 491, 500
Chilean politics and, 328, 331
Neruda’s alleged plagiarism and, 235–37, 240n
Temuco, 15–20, 42–48, 53–56, 74, 79, 90, 95, 97, 143–44, 148, 195, 278–79
and importance of poetry in Chile, 518–20
Mason and, 15–17, 19–20, 34–35
and Neruda’s father’s illness and death, 275–76, 278
Neruda’s father’s life in, 17–20, 22–25, 64
Neruda’s life in, 22, 25, 27–29, 33–36, 42–44, 46–48, 51, 53, 55–56, 58–59, 63–65, 68, 71, 93, 110–11, 115, 275–76, 345, 349, 373, 402, 423, 518
Neruda’s vacations and, 75, 93, 99, 121–22, 124, 130–31
politics in, 16, 262–63
railroad in, 16, 20, 29–31, 36
Tolrá, Aurelia, 15, 21–25, 36, 130
Tomic, Radomiro, 456–58
Tornú, Sara “La Rubia” (the Blonde), 206, 219, 232
Torrealba, Ernesto, 59–60, 126n
Translator to Poet (Reid), 486
Trotsky, Leon, 289–91, 300, 371, 385
Truman, Harry, 337, 358, 387
Trump, Donald, 11, 497
Turner, John R. G., 473–74
Ubico, Jorge, 295–97
última niebla, La (The Final Mist) (Bombal), 208
Ulysses (Joyce), 78, 207
United States, 6, 8, 57, 200, 221, 281, 290n, 321, 358–64, 375, 378n, 428, 430, 455n, 468, 488
Chilean coup and, 458–61
Chilean elections and, 456–57
Chilean workers’ movement and, 329, 332, 335
and fall of Pinochet, 488n, 489n
“Let the Rail-Splitter Awake” and, 377–79
Neruda’s centennial and, 500–501
Neruda’s legacy and, 497–98
Neruda’s politics and, 361, 369
Neruda’s trips to, 436–42,
