2024-10-15 17:35:00
Bringing the mail to a single customer on Isla Negra, the postman Mario Jiménez becomes friends with the poet Pablo Neruda. This is the summary, the slogan of Fiery patience or Neruda’s postmanthe short romantic novel that made the Chilean famous throughout the world Antonio Skarmetadied today.
This was soon reported by the University of Chile, where the writer born in Antofagasta in 1940 studied philosophy and then worked as a teacher. Two film versions (the most famous, The postman/El Carteroby Michael Radford, with Philippe Noiret in the role of Neruda and María Grazia Cucinotta in the role of Beatriz, the postman’s love played by Massimo Troisi) and an infinite number of theatrical adaptations have made that apparently simple story a sort of classic of Latin American literature contemporary.
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Skarmet He published it in 1983 from exile. He had to leave Chile after the military coup led by Augusto Pinochet, to live in Germany, Bolivia and Argentina. as his admired Pablo Nerudawho represented his country as ambassador to France during the government of Salvador Allende, his work brought together literature, academia and diplomacy. He was Chile’s ambassador to Germany between 2000 and 2006, during the presidential administration of Ricardo Lagos.
President Gabriel Boric dismissed Antonio Skármeta on his social networks: “Thank you, maestro, for the life lived. (Photo: EFE)
The president Gabriele Boric He fired him like this on his social media: “Thank you master for the life you lived. For short stories, novels and theatre. For political commitment. For the book exhibition that expanded the boundaries of literature. For dreaming that the snow was burning in Chile which hurt you so much.
The message refers to Skármeta’s first novel, I dreamed that the snow was burningpublished in 1975. Ten years before what would make the “Chilenito” a world celebrity, as his classmates called him in elementary school in the Belgrano neighborhood. His second childhood in Argentina was, for Skármeta, “one of the greatest experiences of happiness”, as he declared in an interview in 2016. To such a fundamental point that he then returned to writing short stories, short stories, recreating those years happy in our country.
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