CHILE: CHILEANS REMEMBER THE POET WHO INSPIRED 'IL POSTINO' PABLO NERUDA ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH

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  • Title: CHILE: CHILEANS REMEMBER THE POET WHO INSPIRED 'IL POSTINO' PABLO NERUDA ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH
  • Date: 23rd September 2003
  • Summary: (L!2) ISLA NEGRA, CHILE (SEPTEMBER 23, 2003) (REUTERS) PABLO NERUDA HOUSE MUSEUM, POET'S FORMER HOME PRESIDENT RICARDO LAGOS ARRIVING AT HOUSE MUSEUM CHILEAN FLAG AND FLAG OF THE FOUNDATION PABLO NERUDA AUDIENCE AT NERUDA CEREMONY VARIOUS OF FLORAL CEREMONY AT TOMB OF PABLO NERUDA
  • Embargoed: 8th October 2003 13:00
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  • Location: REUTERS - EDIT 310 LIFE2 SEPT 24, 2003
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  • Country: Chile
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  • Story Text: Chileans remember the poet who inspired "Il Postino," Pablo Neruda, on the anniversary of his death.
    Chileans remembered Nobel-prize winning poet Pablo Neruda on Tuesday (Sept. 23), the 30th anniversary of his death, at a ceremony in Isla Negra where he lived.
    Neruda, who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature, brought his Spanish love poems and socially-conscious works to the world stage as author of "Veinte Poemas de Amor y Una Cancion Desesperada," ("Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair"), "Residencia en la Tierra," ("Residence on the Earth") and "Canto General" ("General Song").
    Born in 1904 in Chile as Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, he was mentored by Chile's other Nobel literary winner, Gabriela Mistral.
    His life, immortalized in the 1995 film "Il Postino"

    ("The Postman"), was marked by periods of great depression because of personal turmoil in romantic and financial areas and because of the political ramifications of his leftist ideology.
    Chilean President Ricardo Lagos attended the ceremony and remembered the great variety of Neruda's works that stretch from love songs to "Elementary Odes," in which he pays tribute to such everyday items as salt, lemon and tomatoes.
    "Today, we paid homage to Neruda, the poet, the politician, the orator, the memorable one, the one who reinvented the history of America in the "Canto General"

    ("General Song"), the one who shaped in the Residence (referring to "Residencia en la Tierra") a new way to understand poetry, who, in his Odes (referring to "Elementary Odes") rescued everyday life and objects, the poet of love, the poet of memory," said President Ricardo Lagos.
    In "Canto General" ("General Song") and "Alturas de Macchu Picchu" ("Heights of Macchu Picchu"), his poetry traces Neruda's philosophical journey from his adoption of socialist principles to his embrace of Communism.
    Neruda, a member of the Communist party, died just 12 days after a military coup overthrew his friend, the world's first elected Marxist president Salvador Allende.
    The ceremony in Isla Negra included a photographic exhibit that commemorated his clandestine funeral that became one of the first protests against the military rule of President Augusto Pinochet.
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