Remembering Pablo Neruda

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Notes

1 Translations into English are my own, unless otherwise indicated.

2 From Pablo Neruda, Fully Empowered, a bilingual edition translated by Alastair Reid (London: Souvenir Press, 1976, reprinted 2005), 41.

3 “At dawn, armed with ardent patience, we shall enter the splendid Cities.”

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Edwin Williamson

Edwin Williamson (Scotland, 1949) is the King Alfonso XIII Professor Emeritus of Spanish Studies at the University of Oxford. He has written widely on Spanish and Latin American topics. His books include The Half-Way House of Fiction: Don Quixote and Arthurian Romance (1984), Borges: A Life (2004), The Penguin History of Latin America (2009), and The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges (2013).

Williamson delivered a longer version of this text at “Remembering Pablo Neruda” (January 27, 2014, Warwick Arts Centre), organized by John King, Professor of Latin American Cultural History at the University of Warwick. The event, which celebrated the 110th anniversary of Neruda's birth, featured an additional presentation by Gerald Martin (University of Pittsburgh), and a reading of Neruda's poems by the renowned actress Julie Christie. A special screening of the film Burning Patience (Antonio Skármeta, 1983) followed.