Download file 60 KB Texto completo en español More of: José Miguel Varas

In the second half of his exile, from 1951 to 1952, Pablo Neruda was travelling at length, was experiencing an euphoria in his poetic creations, in his political commitments and his most intimate personal life. This was the time when he was solidifying his affair with Matilde Urrutia while his wife, Delia del Carril, went from Europe to Chile to secure the poet’s return against whom orders were outstanding for his arrest and trial.
After a problematic stay in Paris, where the government hindered the extension of his visa, he set up a permanent residence in Czechoslovakia. But it was in Italy, surrounded by affection and ample political backing, where he felt more at home.
The personal testimony by Inés Figueroa, who was a personal friend of Neruda’s, helps the author reconstruct that particular period of Neruda’s exile in detail, in the form of a novel-like tale.