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Pablo Neruda
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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When the great ChiIean poet Pablo Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, the Secretary of the Swedish Academy did not singIe out any singIe work by this prodigious writer. "There is something preposterous about picking individual poems, or even coIIections out of this boundIessness, Iike baling a 50,000 tonner with a teaspoon," he said. "One cannot reproduce the essence of PabIo Neruda. He has not been able to himseIf."
This program tells Neruda's story and gives voice to his poetry, expIoring the profound links that bind his poIitical engagement to his writing. lt travels to Chile to set his life and work against the backdrop of the country and the Iandscapers which inspired him, and to expIore his abiding Iove of the natural worId. The program bears witness to the greatness of Neruda, once described by his friend Federico Garcia Lorca, as "a poet cIoser to death than to phiIosophy, closer to grief than to intellect, cIoser to bIood than to ink." |
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