![]() While serving as the Chilean consul in Madrid, he was nearly captured by a “hit squad” in a restaurant. Neruda championed the Spanish Republican cause, “lending intellectual prestige to the government,” according to journalist David Mitchell in his 1982 book The Spanish Civil War. As he developed his literary voice, he was forced by the world around him to develop a political consciousness, as fascism threatened to envelop the world. It would prove to be a tough period for him. From 1927-1935, he travelled abroad after he was placed in charge of numerous honorary consulships by the Chilean government. He adopted the name Neruda to honor the Czechoslovakian poet Jan Neruda (1834-1891), publishing his first book, Crepusculario, in 1923. As a teenager, he wrote newspaper articles and soon turned his pen to writing poetry. Neruda’s father was a railroad worker his mother, a school teacher, died shortly after her son was born. Walsh christened him, respectively, “the conscience of a continent” and “the Homer of our times.” For his contribution to the world of letters, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1971. His English translators Ben Belitt and Donald W. Pablo Neruda is the pen name of Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, born on Jin the town of Perral, Chile, and since been heralded as “the most prolific, influential, and inventive poet of the Spanish language” (The New York Times Book Review, 1969). Pablo Neruda records for the Library of Congress in 1966. The screenplay, written by Guillermo Calderón, does not try to encapsulate the poet’s life from cradle to grave, but focuses on just one chapter. Neruda stars Gael García Bernal ( The Motorcycle Diaries, Fidel) as police detective Óscar Peluchonneau, who attempts to arrest revolutionary poet and politician Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco) as he goes underground in his native Chile during the late 1940s. Neruda is a metafictional tale directed by Chilean-born filmmaker Pablo Lorraín, who recently filmed Jackie (2016), based on Jacqueline Kennedy and the aftermath of her husband John F. The bio-drama Neruda will be opening at FilmScene on March 24 for a special one-week engagement in Iowa City. FilmScene - opens Friday, March 24 at 4 p.m. ![]()
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