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January 4--We went to four of five bookstores today looking for Pablo Neruda's memoirs. The junta has banned the book because the last three pages, written in the 13 days between the coup and Neruda's death, show too vividly the bitterness of a dying man. (I later bought the book outside of Chile, Neruda wrote,.... Then tanks entered into action, many tanks, to fight bravely against one man alone, the president of the Republic of Chile, Salvador Allende, who awaited them in his office, without more company than his great heart, enveloped in smoke and flames...
...wonder what Neruda felt in those last days as he lay dying, listening to the chattering of the machine-guns...
...MANY American observers, impressed with the novelty of Salvador Allende's election and the thrill of an experiment, ignored the realities of power in Chile. There were popular slogans and lines from Neruda's poetry painted on the walls, there was a visit from Fidel Castro, there were rallies of hundreds of thousands in the streets. This carnival of revolutionary optimism belied Allende's dilemma: elected by a modest plurality, his Popular Unity government never held parliamentary power during his three years as President. He was unable to pass any major legislative initiatives. Only by zealous enforcement of laws previously...
...continuing formal education, I was thrilled to imagine that despite biological destiny I might have my family cake and conquer it, too. I enrolled in "A Survey of Spanish-American Literature" under Professor Juan Marichal, now chairman of the Department of Romance languages, and have been translating Pablo Neruda slowly ever since...
Writers who choose Garcia's path will be more influential in the U.S. than others. Neruda's work can speak best to those who already share his principles; Borges's work has no political message. Garcia's method is to allow his readers to believe that they are not reading politics at all, only simple, romantic tales of life in the fictional village of Macondo. Within these stories, however, Garcia explains a good deal about the social and historical background of contemporary Latin America. And it serves the U.S. right that the great American novel turned...