Volodia Teitelboim

Neruda

An Intimate Biography

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Produktbeschreibung

A biography of the noted Chilean poet.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 524
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 842g
• ISBN-13: 9780292781245
• ISBN-10: 0292781245
• Artikelnr.: 33252080

Autorenporträt

Volodia Teitelboim (1916-2007) was born in Chillán, Chile, the son of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine and Bessarabia. At 16, he joined the Communist Party, and remained an activist for the rest of his life. In 1935, with Eduardo Anguita, he co-edited the Anthology of New Chilean Poetry, a volume that marked a significant rupture with the past. Teitelboim stopped writing poetry, but later wrote fiction as well as several personal memoirs; he is also well known for his biographies of Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda, in addition to the present volume. In 2002, he was awarded Chile's National Prize for Literature. A lawyer by training, in later life he worked for the government, and served for five years as the head of Communist Party of Chile in the early 1990s. He died in 2007, at the age of 91.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Translator’s Foreword
2. Preliminary Note
3. Part One. From Rain to War
4. I. Frontier Boy
* 1. Visiting His Mother
* 2. Farewell to Parral
* 3. Return
* 4. A Camp City
* 5. His “Momother”
* 6. The Brusque Father
* 7. I Don’t Know How or When . . .
* 8. A Dream?
* 9. Childhood Friends
* 10. The First Poet
* 11. The Ostrich
* 12. A Boy Knocks on Gabriela’s Door
* 13. Stammering Poet
* 14. Boy and Pianos
* 15. His Brother’s Birthday
* 16. Beginnings
* 17. Prose Writer of Necessity?
5. II. Twilight Youth
* 18. The Crazy Twenties
* 19. Unamuno and Patriotism’s Stockholders
* 20. Boardinghouses and Tenements
* 21. Maruri and Twilights
* 22. Why “Neruda”?
* 23. The Student
* 24. Friendship and Bohemia
* 25. Flown Away
* 26. Pablo de Rokha
* 27. The Girl from Temuco
* 28. Women and Their Poems
* 29. Incandescent Pollen
* 30. A Tomb for Birds
* 31. The Girl from Santiago
* 32. A Strange Violator of Secrets
* 33. Love and Poetry
* 34. The Verse Changes: The Woman Remains the Same
* 35. Letters as Confession and Anguish
* 36. The Period of the Sturgeon-thin Poet
* 37. Farewell
* 38. Crisis in Bohemia
* 39. The Lazy Man Who Works Like a Factory
* 40. Writers and Elephants
* 41. To the Islands
* 42. Departure
6. III. Anguish and Creation in the Orient
* 43. Pressures from Afar
* 44. Responsibilities in Batavia
* 45. Family Letters
* 46. Vigils and Dreams on the Crossing
* 47. Solitude in Burma
* 48. Ambitions and Desires
* 49. Messages from a Castaway
* 50. Doubts in Rangoon
* 51. Realism in Residence
* 52. Letters from the Orient
* 53. Solemn Communique
* 54. Return to “Maligna”
7. IV. Writing in the School of Hard Knocks
* 55. The Poet and the Mask
* 56. Song of Songs?
* 57. Two-man Bullfight
* 58. Arrival at the Main Office
* 59. Two Unique Consuls
* 60. Misfortunes
* 61. “Ant” or “Neighbor”?
* 62. Dogs and Poets
* 63. A Warm Welcome
* 64. Affinities
* 65. Controversies
* 66. Rectification
* 67. The Polemic over the Anthology and Tagore’s Gardener
* 68. A Heavyweight Fighter
* 69. On the Eve . . .
* 70. Execution in Viznar
* 71. Why the Change?
* 72. The Book on Spain
* 73. The Poet in the Street and a Femme Fatale
* 74. Literary Passions
* 75. President of Intellectuals
* 76. Water of Life and Death
8. Part Two. Passion and Death
9. V. His Discovery of America
* 77. Accursed Cities
* 78. Elections in Chile
* 79. Houses
* 80. Operation “Salvage”
* 81. The Winnipeg Adventure Continues
* 82. Reflection of the Spanish Experience
* 83. Repentance
* 84. Magical and Violent Country
* 85. Mexican Miscellany
* 86. Battles, Serenades, and Slashes
* 87. Ascent to Origins
* 88. Personal and Extrapersonal Meaning of Machu Picchu
* 89. Four Journeys
* 90. An Unusual Speech
* 91. Congressional Debut
* 92. The Problem of Time
* 93. The Honorable Mr. Reyes Praises Lucila Godoy Alcayaga
* 94. Pro Memoria
* 95. Strange Waltz
* 96. The Great Somersault
* 97. The Poet Accuses
* 98. Clandestine Life
* 99. Looking for a Way Out
* 100. Preparations in the Forest
* 101. Toward the Ends of the Earth
10. VI. The World Voyage
* 102. Saint Martin of Free Men
* 103. The Charge to Publish the General Song
* 104. Parisian Debut
* 105. Europe Makes a Discovery
* 106. The Wind of the Old New World
* 107. Farewell to the Senate
* 108. Encounter with Pushkin
* 109. The Verse Underlined by a Young Suicide
* 110. Love and Phlebitis
* 111. Conversation with Exiles
* 112. Italian Interlude
* 113. The Two-headed Woman
* 114. Polygamy and Disinformation
* 115. Welcome at Home
* 116. The Intellectuals Gather
* 117. Joy and Sadness of Sofré the Bird
* 118. Tales and Tallies
* 119. The Prize Adventure
* 120. Donations, Foundations, and Equivocations
11. VII. Narrator of Himself
* 121. Fifty Hurrahs and Two Condemnations
* 122. Houses and Women
* 123. The Breakup
* 124. The Invisible Man Makes an Appearance
* 125. The War of Less Than a Hundred Years
* 126. Exchanging Titles
* 127. Neruda Yes, Neruda No
* 128. Clear Days and Cloudy Ones
* 129. Sebastiana and Wine Pitchers
* 130. The Party Man
* 131. Epistles
* 132. A Forgotten Heroine
* 133. Earthquake in His Childhood Land
* 134. History’s Bearded Men
* 135. The Joking Bird
* 136. Outlines
* 137. Airy and Earthly Poetry
* 138. Mysterious Simultaneity of Ideas
* 139. Three-dimensional Man
* 140. With the Turk and the Spaniard
* 141. Civil Registry Official
* 142. The Burden of Fame
* 143. Summing Up and Self-analysis
* 144. His Companion William Shakespeare
* 145. Feet Blue with Cold
* 146. The Book of the Bountiful Table
* 147. Kites
* 148. The Impersonator
* 149. Paparazzi Ire at the Nuptial Hour
* 150. The Mythical Bandit
* 151. Jorge Sanhueza
* 152. Real Birds and Riddle Birds
* 153. The House with the Blue Flag
* 154. The Lilt of the Barcarole
* 155. The Mapuche Trutruca Horn and the Troubadour
* 156. The Shell Collector
* 157. A Bit of Philosophy
* 158. Standard Bearer
* 159. An Unusual Campaign
* 160. A Deaf Old Man with an Accordion
* 161. The Poet and His Century
* 162. Interdisciplinary Madmen
* 163. The City of the Caesars
* 164. Stones, Wait for Me!
* 165. Midnight Speech and Morning Conversation
12. VIII. The Song of the Ancient Mariner
* 166. Upsetting News
* 167. The Swedish Decision
* 168. Flashbulb Time
* 169. Jubilation at Home
* 170. Red Corpuscles
* 171. Revelation
* 172. A Castle in the Air
* 173. Futurism’s Sister
* 174. The Albatross Country
* 175. Projects and Relapses
* 176. Araucanian Stone
* 177. The Cantalao Dream
* 178. Tapestries of the Poor
* 179. Revised Dedications
* 180. On Alert
* 181. The Overcoat
* 182. Posthumous Work
* 183. Memoirs and Manuscripts
* 184. Farewell
* 185. Death in the Midst of Death
* 186. The Errant Coffin
* 187. Unwelcome Visitors
* 188. The Cortege
* 189. Until We Meet Again!
* 190. It So Happens I Will Live On
* 191. Postscript of 12 July 1984
* 192. Six Months Later
13. Notes
14. Index of Names