Who is matilde urrutia

Anyone with an interest in Neruda that extends to his love life may wish to read My Life with Pablo Neruda, the memoirs of Matilde Urrutia, before they travel to Chile. All three of the homes that he shared with Matilde are open to the public as museums, two of which may be seen on Southern Explorations Chile tours. Skip to main content.

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Search review text. I wish this book were better written, so that I could give it the five stars I so wanted it to deserve. The content is rich and often beautiful, but Urrutia was no writer. She lived well and she loved well, and that ought to have been enough. She did the world a great service by preserving her husband's memoirs and seeing to the preservation of his unpublished works. Still, it was not time wasted to read her book, if only for the vivid pictures she described of Neruda at work and play, to say nothing of her account of life under Pinochet's regime, which also needed to be told and shared.

Priscila Quijada. Es un libro precioso, sobre todo para los chilenos que estamos lejos de nuestra Patria Didn't finish. Bleak, death, political upheaval, communism, extra marital affairs.

Once I learned enough to see what was real in this romantic poets life I wasn't interested. Affair with Matilde for years while still married. They met in Santiago in , when she was working as a physical therapist in Chile. She was the first woman in Latin America to work as a pediatric therapist. Urrutia was the inspiration behind Neruda's later love poems beginning with Los Versos del Capitan in , which the poet withheld publication until to spare the feelings of his previous wife; as well as Love Sonnets which includes a beautiful dedication to her.

Neruda built a house in Santiago called " La Chascona ", for Urrutia, which served as a secret love den for the two, as news that Neruda was having an affair would not have been received well with the Chilean public.

In his house there is a painting given to Urrutia by Neruda depicting a two faced Urrutia with her famously long bright red hair.