Memoirs (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1904-1973
- Setting: Chile
- Principal Characters: Pablo Neruda, Salvador Allende, Federico Garcia Lorca
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: History, Current events, Politics, Revolutions, Poetry or poets, South America or South Americans, Biography
Form and Content
Pablo Neruda died on September 23, 1973, in Santiago, Chile. Only twelve days earlier, the government of Salvador Allende, which Neruda strongly supported, had been overthrown in a bloody military coup. He was engaged in the final editing of his memoirs when death interrupted, so it is impossible to know what, if any, changes he would have made. The manuscript was prepared for publication by his wife, Matilde Neruda, and Miguel Otero Silva; the Spanish language edition first appeared in print the following year.
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