Kendry

@kendry · 27 Apr 2022

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The image of Neruda is overshadowed

#yoorslocalnews Neruda's legacy at risk due to the pandemic and the rape he confessed
Fernando Saez, director of the Foundation in charge of managing the legacy of the Chilean poet, recognizes that his museum houses could close due to lack of funds. The feminist review of the author's life and work has cast a shadow over his image.
The Pablo Neruda Foundation, in charge of preserving the legacy of the Chilean poet and the administration of his three museum houses, has run out of money due to the closure of its centers to visitors during the pandemic. Fernando Saez, the entity's executive director, acknowledges that if he doesn't get funding within the next “four or five months” they may have to close the legendary Nobel Literature homes, although he trusts that Gabriel Boric's government will help prevent that from happening. Saez argues that the search for financial support comes after “three very strong campaigns against Neruda” unleashed in recent years by the rape that the author confessed in his posthumous book of memoirs; the abandonment in which he had his daughter Malva Marina, born with hydrocephalus, and the feminist revision of poems such as the one that begins “I like it when you shut up because you're kind of absent”.