Neruda and literature

Chile is the land of poetry. Every Chilean person is shy but passionate at the same time and finds his or her natural expression in poetry. Probably there is not another country in the world where poetry is universally admired and practised as much as in Chile. 

Vicente Huidobro (1893 – 1948), or Gabriela Mistral (1889 – 1957) both received the Nobel Price for literature and their poems express a passionate love for their country. Pablo de Rokha (1894 - 1968), and Nicanor Parra (1914) were also obsessed with the myth of a country which is still partially unknown. But the most famous of all is Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), one of the geniuses of the worlds literatures, who described the beauty of Chile throughout a series of unforgettable verses. 

We will visit Neruda’s home, and look for the places these artists loved the most, finding their source of inspiration : romantic, expressionist, surrealist, or epic. We will meet also other names, such as Juan Emar (1893 – 1964), author of the most ambitious novel ever written in Chile in the XX cent or José Donoso (1924), and Jorge Edwards, crossing the Santiago they admired or detested. You will find the traces of the mythic Casa de los espiritus, by Isabel Allende. We will understand the nostalgia of Sepulveda and Skarmeta for both the Chilean people and Santiago, as a town which never stopped to change. The tour will end at a wonderful café literario.