The Americas, January 1st, 2005
My Life with Pablo Neruda, by Matilde Urrutia. Trans., Alexandria Giardino. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2004.
Matilde Urrutia was Pablo Neruda's muse, inspiration for The Captain's Verses and One Hundred Love Sonnets. Both from the south of Chile, they met in a park in Santiago in 1946 and then again in Mexico City. After attending the funeral of painter José Clemente Orozco, Neruda fell ill, and Urrutia, a teacher at a conservatory in Mexico, nursed him back to health. An affair ensued. Back home Neruda, an avid Communist, had run afoul of the government, and Matilde of...
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