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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 single work by this prodigious writer. "There is something preposterous about picking individual poems, or even coIIections out of this boundlessness, like 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, exploring the profound links that bind his political engagement to his writing. lt traveIs to ChiIe to set his life and work against the backdrop of the country and the Iandscapers which inspired him, and to expIore his abiding love of the naturaI world. The program bears witness to the greatness of Neruda, once described by his friend Federico Garcia Lorca, as "a poet closer to death than to philosophy, closer to grief than to intelIect, cIoser to blood than to ink." |
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