Pablo Neruda in Context includes forty-two essays by some of the main experts on Pablo Neruda's oeuvre that focus on how his places of residence and travel (Mexico, Argentina, Spain, France, Asia), the landmark event of the Cold War, as well as literary and political influences affected his poetic evolution. It also considers the other genres of his writing, including memoirs, letters, translation, and drama, as well as the musical and film adaptions of his work throughout the world. Other essays study his anti-colonial and ecocritical messages, his complicated relationships with women and other writers, as well as his take on race and the significance of his plausible assassination by Augusto Pinochet's military junta. The last section explores Neruda's poetry as world literature as well as his impressive reception in India, Japan, China, the Arab world, the Anglophone world, Russia and Eastern Europe, and his overall lasting legacy.
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Contextualizes Pablo Neruda's opus, focusing on the Cold War, his travels, politics, relationships, influence, and reception.
Foreword: A Bell and a Pencil with Green Ink. Reflections of a Young
Poet; Introduction: The Author, His Life, and His Oeuvre; Part I. Residence
and Travel:
1. A lo lejos alguien canta: Solitude as rite of passage and
diplomatic life in East Asia, 1927-1932;
2. Pablo Neruda in Buenos Aires: An
urban approach to his stay and sociability;
3. Pablo Neruda's España en el
Corazón and the Spanish civil war;
4. France in the life and poetry of Pablo
Neruda;
5. Of commitments and polemics: Neruda in Mexico, between Siqueiros
and Paz;
6. Departure and return: Pablo Neruda, the traveler who always
returned; Part II. Landmark Events and Relationships:
7. Neruda's
misreadings: Myth and reality in Chilean history;
8. The Awards and honors of
Pablo Neruda: The people's poet and politician;
9. Neruda on poetics: The
1971 nobel lecture;
10. Pablo Neruda: Poetry, monument, ruin;
11. The poet in
New York: Pablo Neruda and the 1966 International P.E.N. club conference;
12.
Women in the poet's life: More than muses;
13. Subjectivities and reception:
Pablo Neruda on the 100th anniversary of Veinte poemas de amor y una canción
desesperada; Part III. Literary Influences and Poetic Evolution:
14. Neruda
and his precursors: Negotiating one's debts;
15. The adolescent poetry of
Pablo Neruda (19201924): From Crepusculario to Veinte poemas de amor y una
canción desesperada;
16. The confluence of avant-gardist form and realist
content in residencia en la tierra;
17. Poetic evolution III (1950-1953): The
politics and historicism of Pablo Neruda in canto general and España en el
corazón;
18. Poetic evolution IV (1954-1957): The triptych of elemental odes,
materialism, and everyday humble objects;
19. From late to posthumous poems:
Neruda's forgotten futurity; Part IV. Other Genres:
20. Fulgor y muerte de
Joaquín Murieta and the European political theater tradition;
21. Letters,
life, and poetry: A pending task in the Nerudian universe;
22. The
(In)visibility of the translator: Neruda and 44 poetas rumanos;
23. Amo las
cosas loca, locamente': The poet as collector in Neruda's Odes;
24. We are
many': How Neruda confessed to his contradictions in his memoirs;
25. Musical
adaptations of Canto general;
26. Burning patience: Skármeta's invention of
Neruda; Part V. Politics, Race, and Ecocriticism:
27. Pablo Neruda's
political and intellectual trajectory: Between the author and the militant;
28. Pablo Neruda: on machu picchu and revolution;
29. The marxian Worldview
in selected poems of Pablo Neruda;
30. Race and ethnicity: Pablo Neruda's
black Atlantic;
31. Beyond the national poet: Neruda according to Chihuailaf;
32. Ecocritical readings: Neruda, critic of progress; Part VI. Worldwide
Influence, Reception, and Legacy:
33. Poetry as World literature. The case of
Pablo Neruda;
34. Fermenting the grapes of history: Decolonization and
anti-imperialism in Neruda's India;
35. Neruda's legacy in China and Japan:
from Ai Weiwei to Taeko Tomiyama;
36. Pablo Neruda from the Pacific to
Palestine;
37. Pablo Neruda in dialogue with Nizâr Qabbânî and Mahmûd
Darwîsh;
38. Neruda's life and poetry in the United States, United Kingdom,
and the rest of the anglophone World;
39. Between Pushkin and Stalin: Pablo
Neruda in the Soviet Union; Epilogue:
40. Of the time-worn human spring': On
Pablo Neruda's legacy.
Ignacio López-Calvo is Presidential Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Literature at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of nine books, including The Mexican Transpacific: Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, Performance (2022) and Saudades of Japan and Brazil: Contested Modernities in Lusophone Nikkei Cultural Production (2019).
