politics in, 325, 332–33, 370, 379, 436–40
Spanish Civil War and, 252, 254, 261, 269, 412
World Congress and, 358–60
World War II and, 302–3
Urrutia, Alicia (niece), 463–64, 472–73, 597n
Urrutia Cerda, Matilde Rosario (third wife), 384–99, 435–36, 440–41
Central and South American travels of, 366, 381, 389–90, 392, 398–99, 427–28, 440, 454–55, 456n
Chilean coup and, 478, 480
Cuban trip of, 428–29
domestic abilities of, 367, 386, 392, 396, 402
European travels of, 386–94, 396–98, 426n, 428, 435, 454, 456, 465–66, 469–70, 472
hives of, 388–89
houses of, 4–5, 402, 415, 417, 463
memoir of, 387–88, 390, 393, 395, 397, 480
miscarriages of, 381, 389–90, 394, 397, 415–16
Neruda’s death and, 480–81, 489
Neruda’s first meeting with, 366–67
Neruda’s illnesses and, 367, 466, 472–73, 479, 492, 597n, 600n
Neruda’s letters to, 385–86, 394, 472
Neruda’s marriage to, 435, 443–44
Neruda’s relationship with, 367–68, 381–82, 385–99, 401–2, 414–19, 421–22, 424–27, 431–32, 447, 463–64, 466, 472–73, 480
physical appearance of, 4, 366–67, 417–18, 428–29, 443–44
politics of, 366–67, 386–87, 394, 456, 489
pregnancies of, 368, 392, 396–97, 415
Valdivia, 51, 346, 348–49, 354
Valenzuela, Inés, 227–28, 319, 402, 418–19, 480–81
Valle, Juvencio, 37–38, 345–46, 375n
Vallejo, César, 78, 86n, 128n, 143, 153, 179n, 259, 268, 271, 407, 430n
Valparaíso, 51, 142, 179n, 194, 273–74, 445, 466
Neruda’s hiding in, 343, 345
Neruda’s illnesses and, 472–73
Neruda’s trips to, 4, 139–43, 424–25, 432, 473, 491
Spanish refugee crisis and, 282–83
strikes and violence in, 67, 323, 476
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 167, 438, 469, 500
Vargas Rosas, Luis, 279–80
Velasco, Francisco, 424, 469–70, 473, 491
Venegas, Alejandro, 45–46
Venezuela, 325, 369, 375n, 427–28, 454–55, 455n–56n
Venturelli, José, 377
Verlaine, Paul, 59, 63–64, 75–76, 113, 143
Verónica (Neruda Foundation employee), 5–6, 10
Vial, Sara, 424
Vietnam, Vietnam War, 8, 150, 157, 160, 378n, 447–48, 468–69
Villalobos, Agustina, 108–9
Washington, D.C., 304, 438–39, 500–501, 601n
Wendt, Lionel, 172–73, 188
Western Canon, The (Bloom), 243
Whitman, Walt, 5, 7, 78, 149, 242–43, 364, 372, 394, 401, 407, 417, 423, 425, 437
Winter, Augusto, 57–58, 110
World Congress of Partisans for Peace, 357–60
World War I, 65, 86, 194, 321
World War II, 283, 298, 301–3, 306, 315, 337, 357, 379
Zniewolony umysł (The Captive Mind) (Milosz), 413–14
Zurita, Raúl, 315–16, 517, 520–21
Photo Section
Rosa Neftalí Basoalto Opazo, Neruda’s mother, in Parral, circa 1900.
Archivo personal de Bernardo Reyes
José del Carmen Reyes Morales, Neruda’s father, in Temuco, 1920s.
Archivo personal de Bernardo Reyes
Neruda, at age two, in Temuco, 1906.
Archivo personal de Bernardo Reyes
Trinidad Candia Malverde, Neruda’s stepmother, whose “gentle shadow watched over my childhood.” She signed the photo, “To my son Rodolfo and family, this memento of your mother . . .” It is dated Temuco, 1927.
Archivo de Marycruz Jara Urrutia, through Bernardo Reyes
Neftalí (about age fourteen) and his half sister, Laura (about age eleven), in Temuco, 1918.
Archivo de Escritor, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile
Teresa León Bettiens (around age twenty), 1925. The queen of Temuco’s spring fiesta, she was a muse for Twenty Love Poems.
Rosa León Muller
Neruda (left) with the poet Romeo Murga, in the Calle Maruri pension house they lived in when Neruda first moved to Santiago, 1922.
Archivos de la Fundación Pablo Neruda
Neruda in his “poet’s outfit” of black cape and wide-brimmed sombrero.
Archivo personal de Bernardo Reyes
Cover of Crepusculario (1923), with illustrations by the anarchist leader Juan Gandulfo.
Colección Archivo Fotográfico, Archivo Central Andrés Bello, Universidad de Chile
Albertina Rosa Azócar, one of the principal muses of Twenty Love Poems, in the 1920s.
Archivos de la Fundación Pablo Neruda
Neruda with his friend Álvaro Hinojosa, 1925. The two would travel to Burma together in 1927.
Archivo personal de Bernardo Reyes
Neruda back in Santiago, no longer the “somber, melancholic, absent muchacho,” here with his gang of friends, including Alberto Rojas Jiménez, (top row, second from left) and Tomás Lago (top row, to the right of Neruda, fourth from left,) 1932.
Colección Museo Histórico Nacional (Chile)
Neruda and Maria Antonia Hagenaar on their wedding day, December 6, 1930, outside their house in Batavia.
Archivo personal de Bernardo Reyes
Federico García Lorca and Carlos Morla Lynch in front of the Alahmbra of Granada, Lorca’s hometown.
Editorial Renacimiento, Seville
María Luisa Bombal.
Colección Museo Histórico Nacional (Chile)
Neruda and Delia del Carril, Madrid, 1935.
Archivos de la Fundación Pablo Neruda
Neruda’s daughter, Malva Marina, around age five, in Holland.
Frederik Julsing
Neruda and Delia (far left) arriving in São Paulo, July 1945. They were greeted by the renowned novelist Jorge Amado (right). Neruda, Amado, and Luís Carlos Prestes would read before a crowd of at least eighty thousand in celebration of Prestes’s release from jail after ten years as a political prisoner.
Archivos personales de Bernardo Reyes
Delivering his “Yo Acuso” (“I Accuse”) speech on the Senate floor, 1948.
Archivos de la Fundación Pablo Neruda
Just before crossing the Andes into exile with Jorge Bellet and Victor Bianchi.
Colección Archivo Fotográfico, Archivo Central Andrés Bello, Universidad de Chile
Neruda and Matilde in Nyon, on the shore of Lake Geneva, where they spent a few days alone for the first time, 1951.
Archivos de la Fundación Pablo Neruda
On April 25, 1949, at the end of the First World Congress of Partisans for Peace in Paris, Pablo Picasso announced he had a surprise and revealed Neruda, who had just fled Chile into exile.
Associated Press
Neruda’s bedroom, Isla Negra, 2015.
Danielle Villasana
Neruda’s house in Isla Negra, spreading across the hill like a ship above the water, 1999.
Macduff Everton
“Neruda for President” rally in Santiago’s working-class Barrancas neighborhood, October 1969.
Colección Archivo Fotográfico, Archivo Central Andrés Bello, Universidad de Chile
Neruda campaigning for Salvador Allende.
Archivos de la Fundación Pablo Neruda
The bar inside Isla Negra, with rafters carved with names of friends who had died, 1967.
Milton Rogovin/Courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona Foundation
Matilde hugging Neruda after hearing the announcement that he had won the Nobel Prize, October 21, 1971.
Bridgeman Images
Neruda’s funeral, September 25, 1973.
Marcelo Montecino
Neruda’s funeral, September 25, 1973.
Marcelo Montecino
Soldier flanking the funeral procession.
David Burnett/Contact Press Images
Matilde Urrutia walking behind her husband’s coffin.
David Burnett/Contact Press Images
Credits
I am deeply grateful to the Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells S. A. and the
