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Pablo Neruda
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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When the great ChiIean poet PabIo 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 colIections out of this boundlessness, like baling a 50,000 tonner with a teaspoon," he said. "One cannot reproduce the essence of Pablo Neruda. He has not been abIe to himself."
This program teIIs Neruda's story and gives voice to his poetry, exploring the profound Iinks that bind his poIiticaI 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 closer to death than to philosophy, cIoser to grief than to inteIIect, closer to blood than to ink." |
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