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Matilde Urrutia was poet Pablo Neruda's lover, muse, wife, and widow. The Nobel-laureate Chilean wrote The Captain's Verses and One Hundred Love Sonnets—two of the most celebrated volumes of love lyrics in modern Spanish letters—for her. In My Life with Pablo Neruda, Urrutia reveals her side of their famed romance. But her book is not simply a love story told by a muse; it is also a document of her life as the persecuted widow of a national hero. Her voice lifts out of the sorrow and violence of the military dictatorship that precipitated her beloved's death in 1973, to reaffirm the power of Neruda's own passionate voice.
My Life with Pablo Neruda opens with the dramatic events of September 11, 1973, with Augusto Pinochet's overthrow of the democratically elected socialist president of Chile, Salvador Allende. Devastated by the coup, the sixty-nine-year-old Neruda dies a few days later of a heart attack. Grief-stricken, Urrutia takes refuge in her memories, reeling back through time to recount the heady early days of her twenty-two-year romance with Neruda. Here, she reveals the birth of The Captain's Verses and divulges the secrets of their illicit marriage in Italy. Urrutia then returns to the grim reality she faces in Santiago in the mid-1970s, to describe life under the dictatorship. Harassed by Pinochet's henchmen, she becomes an exile within her own country, mourns the torture and disappearance of loved ones, and finally awakes from the stupor of sorrow and commits herself to using Neruda's words to lash out against the bloody regime.
Reading My Life with Pablo Neruda is like spending a long afternoon with Matilde Urrutia. In a conversational style, she brings Neruda to life, and he emerges as a vibrant, playful, and impatient man driven by unbounded appetites. At once humorous and heart-breaking, Urrutia's story makes for a fine domestic complement to Neruda's own lush memoirs.
- Sales Rank: #1172807 in Books
- Published on: 2004-09-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .90" w x 6.00" l, 1.19 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 312 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Much like Chilean poet Neruda's own glittering lyrics, his muse and widow Urrutia has penned a memoir that sparkles freshly with a love of family, nature and homeland. Memorialized by the Nobel laureate in his poems as "Rosario" and as the woman with Medusa-like hair, Urrutia was first glimpsed by Neruda at a concert in 1946, but it was three years before they met again, when she became his nurse as he was recovering from phlebitis. Neruda had to flee Chile because of his political views, and Urrutia soon joined him, inaugurating this famed literary romance. Sandwiched between accounts of Neruda's death shortly after the Pinochet coup in 1973 and her own persecution by the Chilean government are Urrutia's lyrical reminiscences of her love with Neruda. "Our easygoing, playful friendship, which we had considered to be at most simply mischievous, had just transformed into a complicated battle of emotions. Now our relationship would bring us... an abundance of joy, but it would also bring us grief and desperation." Urrutia draws strength from her husband's writings after his death as she faces her fears of remaining silent in the face of injustice. Her graceful prose offers not only a glimpse of her life with the great poet but also a portrait of the nobility of suffering under an unjust political regime. B&w photos.
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From Booklist
In the midst of Pinochet's brutal 1973 military coup, Matilde Urrutia, poet Pablo Neruda's lover, wife, and muse, was left to mourn the great Nobel laureate, settle his disintegrated estate, hastily memorialize him in their looted Santiago home, and bury him under police watch. Having considered herself apolitical, Matilde suddenly understood Neruda's dedication to Chile, and drawing on hidden strength, she bravely preserved Neruda's legacy by smuggling his memoir out of the country. Here she offers her memoir, a loving and emotionally charged record that provides many heretofore missing pieces in the puzzle of Neruda's life. One only needs to read the intimate details of their first clandestine days together in Europe; their soulful, life-altering time in Switzerland and Capri; her heartbreaking miscarriages; and his poems reflecting these events, to understand the depth of their love. Given that it's the centenary of Neruda's birth, readers might wish for a tighter focus on the poet, but every intimate glimpse enhances our understanding and appreciation. Janet St. John
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Review
“Urrutia draws strength from her husband’s writings after his death as she faces her fears of remaining silent in the face of injustice. Her graceful prose offers not only a glimpse of her life with the great poet but also a portrait of the nobility of suffering under an unjust political regime.” —Publishers Weekly
"In the category of personal accounts, Matilde Urrutia's autobiography is particularly important. She was not only the raison d'etre of One Hundred Love Sonnets but also the source of peace and domesticity in Neruda's mature life, and the keeper of the flame after his death." —Ilan Stavans,editor of The Poetry of Pablo Neruda and Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture, Amherst College
Most helpful customer reviews
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Brilliant translation of an intimate portrait of Neruda
By ginger danken
Several years ago a friend brought me back Matilde's book from Chile, her original version in Spanish. I was eager to read it, as Matilde and Pablo were one of literature's greatest couples, and I had only, and the only biography I had read of Neruda at that time were his own Memoirs.
Unfortunately, though,it seemed she learned nothing about writing from her husband. The prose was dry and the tale took terrible turns in chronology, tone, and even voice--switching from first to third. Though she does offer some very special intimate glimpses into the poet and their fabled relationship, the writing distracted from any good biographical information that she provided.
But I recently came across a review on the web of this new translation, talking about how Ms. Giardino had transformed the original faults and created a new version which engages, without changing what Matilde wanted to say. I am normally a stickler for translations being faithful to the original, while knowing that they do have to balance the artistic translation as well. Ben Bellet's translations of Neruda for instance take way too much literary license as he creates new poems, not translations, new poems which are not just anywhere close to being faithful to Neruda's original words, but are just awful poems themselves.
But what Ms. Giardino has done is, literaly, exceptional. Matilde needed her work to be edited, and Giardino has done a masterful job of that, besides creating a translation into beautiful English prose. And--importantly--the book does not hide the fact that it has made these changes--it is honest in what it tried to achieve, and she is very successful. The result is a delightful read and a special view into a special relationship of one of the most special poets of all times. This of course is not a complete biography of Neruda, but rather it is a lovely tale of a muse and her poet-lover.
I think a new version of the Spanish should be published with Giardino's edits (again, noted clearly that it has been edited.) For Matilde's own original is simply inaccessible, the writing is a turn-off from the great history she wants to tell.
One of the most fascinating parts of the book deals with Matilde's account of Augusto Pinnochet's September 11, 1973 military coup which killed Pablo's amigo President Allende and led to the assassination and torture of many of his friends. He died two weeks later, as Matilde says, "of a broken heart" (as well as cancer.) Matilde's accounts of how the military destroyed their home and how his friends braved the dictatorship to march with the coffin of their poet through the streets of Santiago to the cemetery is truly moving.
Highly recommended.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Beautiful history of one of literature's greatest romances
By Chris Lantern
Matilde Urrutia, Neruda's third wife, was the subject of some of the greatest love poetry ever written. In this beautiful account of their life together, one gains gorgeous insight not only to their love, but to the character of the great poet Neruda, a view unavailable in other biographies. You also learn the tragic history of Chile and Neruda's involvment in it.
Having read the original in Spanish, I can say that Alexandra Giardino's adaptation is a masterpiece in literary translation. The book reads so much better, actually, with her work.
Highly recommended.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
A lyrical, if understandably biased, tribute to a great poet
By Anne McPhee
This translation of Matilde Urruita's memoir adds so much to the the canon of English language material about Pablo Neruda. Opening with the assassination of President Allende and Neruda's death, Urrutia in a series of flashbacks reveals her life with Neruda and his poetry. Indeed, there is a sense that the poetry had a life of its own; it certainly becomes a third "character" in this memoir.
There are moments when Uruttia threatens to overwhelm with overwrought sentimentality, but Uruttia (with no small assist from the translator, I'm certain) stops short. But all in all, it is a delightful book that chronicles a magic love affair.
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