Word: neruda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...saint, set the stage for the whole flowering by modulating European tradition into a distinctively South American voice, giving South American writers a new self-confidence. While he remains a grand old anti-fascist liberal, most writers of subsequent generations have been more or less socialist. Some, like Pablo Neruda, put their life and art wholly at the command of the movement they support; some, like Jose Lezama Lima in Cuba, have differed with the revolutionists after giving them initial support; some, like Garcia Marquez, have kept away from direct political action yet still have served revolution in their writing...
This spirit was a chief target of the junta's attack. Marxist literature and books of all kind were burned in the streets. Soldiers ransacked the manuscripts of Pablo Neruda. A folksinger was shot for entertaining the prisoners in Chile's national stadium, which had been converted into a concentration camp by the military regime. Meanwhile, the North American press pressed on; The Times wrote that Agosto Pinochet, Chile's new strongman, was "quiet and businesslike," "powerfully built," and presumably despite his predisposition towards repression, a man with a "sense of humor...
0PPOSING the sterile Mexican novelists described by Octavio Paz is Paz himself. Cesar Vallejo and Pablo Neruda--with Paz, the finest and most influential of the Latin American poet-politicians--are dead now, but younger writers are following their example...
...folk chants, tough cafe tunes and lyric ballads of the Greek islands. Most were narrative in style. Some were set to his own poems (Put off the light! The guard is knocking./ Tonight they will come again"), others to those of the late George Seferis of Greece and Pablo Neruda of Chile. All were tuneful, simple, direct, almost thunderous in their momentum - and impossible to resist. Theodorakis conducted the concert with windmill waving of the arms that bespoke the amateur maestro but was nonetheless effective. When it was over, the crowd, only partly Greek- American, gathered round the stage apron...
...country is, as Pablo Neruda said, a silent Vietnam. There are no occupation troops nor powerful warplanes clouding the open skies of my country, but we are economically blockaded, we have no international credit, we cannot buy machinery, we don't have enough to buy food, and we lack medicine...