“Comrades, bury me in Isla Negra, facing the sea that I know.”
This is what you said clearly and bluntly Chilean poet Pablo Neruda in his “Canto General”.
I wanted to rest in peace in the dearest of his three houses, Isla Negra , a desire it will be implemented on Tuesday almost 40 after his death.
after being veiled in Congress on Monday, the remains of Neruda will again be buried there after they were exhumed by court order in 2013 .
The Communist Party and one of his nephews had filed a complaint for murder and conspiracy after the driver of the poet ensure that this did not die of cancer, but it was poisoned by agents of the military government with an injection at the clinic where he was hospitalized.
However, research found no evidence of poisoning .
the Nobel prize for Literature in 1971 died on September 23, 1973 . Twelve days earlier, General Augusto Pinochet had made a coup and imposed a de facto government that would last 17 years.
The funeral Tuesday is the fourth of the poet. BBC tells you how were the three previous occasions
1973 -. The funeral of the people
Neruda died in Santiago and his widow, Matilde Urrutia decided watch over him in the same house that days before had been raided by the military. La Chascona, home in the Chilean capital
for those who could enter to offer condolences, the picture it was devastating.
The entrance courtyard was flooded, like parts of the first floor “water flowing from somewhere,” says the Colombian writer Plinio Mendoza Apuleius in his column “Farewell to Neruda”
the garden across the yard was full of debris. papers, books burned and broken glass and in the house the situation was no better. .
without electricity, the wake was the old, lighting only by candles and without this authority . Something almost impossible to believe a couple of years earlier, when Neruda won the Nobel and was a influential politician, diplomat and presidential candidate of the Communist Party.
“That gray coffin, without pomp, no candles, no crowns, placed at one end of the piece and adorned only with two white roses seemed to cut quickly, gave a sense of loneliness. Under the glass, resting on a satin face Neruda seemed reduced, unreal, “says Apuleius Mendoza.
One gray coffin, no pomp, no candles, no crowns, placed at one end of the piece and adorned only with two white roses rush seemed cut “
“ the human at that time was not his face, but the plaid shirt that had been open at the neck and the sack tweed : a sportswear which suggested placid Sunday Isla Negra “
But solitude was locked behind the doors of La Moneda.. Because in about three kilometers that separate the general cemetery, hundreds were adding at the funeral procession.
Among flowers and slogans of his fellow communists, courtship became perhaps the first mass rally against the military regime . It had been less than two weeks since the coup and people thronged the street singing “International”
1974 -. Transfer secret
“Tomorrow very sad for sad funeral ceremony, “he wrote the poet Jaime Quezada, a friend of Neruda and one of six attending his second funeral” in the most private of private “.
It happened on May 7, 1974, less than a year after his first funeral.
Neruda was buried in the family mausoleum of the writer Adriana Dittborn, but had to be moved because the express request of the same family. Neruda was not a dead well regarded by the regime.
“On the ballot box intact as the first day, the Chilean flag even without the slightest damage. Nobody speaks in that slow and very ritual and intimate transfer-procession (…) the soft squeak of rubber wheels small hearse seem to say and repeat each stretch: there is no greater solitude than death “
<. strong> from the opulence of the mausoleums, the former Nobel prize and Chilean diplomat was taken to a niche in one of the most popular sectors of the cemetery , “closer to the land and people,” said Quezada.
But still far from Isla Negra
1992 -. late recognition
in 1990 Chile returned to democracy and with it the recognition previously silenced.
President Patricio Aylwin himself led in 1992 the ceremony that finally fulfill the dream of Neruda. Rest in Isla Negra
The poet and his second wife, Matilde Urrutia, were exhumed from their graves in the cemetery and taken to the hall of honor of the former National Congress, where all featured characters are honored.
on December 12 caskets were finally brought to Isla Negra in a joint effort between the government and the Neruda Foundation.
But the rest of the poet would not be alone. Or forever.
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