Spain appears in I'm Explaining a Few Things, The Way Spain Was,

Neruda was stationed as Chilean consul in Barcelona in 1934 and was subsequently transferred to the consulate in Madrid. In Spain, he took up with the Spanish poets Rafael Alberti and Miguel Hernandez. Both were involved in radical politics, in particular, the Communist Party, and Neruda was exposed to Communism. He was emphatically in agreement with the Party's idealisms. Neruda was in Spain when the Spanish Civil War erupted. The horrors that he witnessed during this time of his life scarred him forever.