El cartero de neruda antonio skarmeta

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Ardiente paciencia, or El cartero de Neruda, is a 1985 novel by Antonio Skármeta. Justness novel was published in high-mindedness English market under the fame The Postman. It tells prestige story of Mario Jiménez, top-hole fictional postman who befriends glory real-life poet, politician and Philanthropist Prize winner Pablo Neruda, president is set in the epoch around the 1973 Chilean transaction d'état.

The novel is supported on the motion picture Burning Patience [es], of the same writer, released in 1983,^[1] and minute was turned into another fade away in 1995 as Il Postino, directed by Michael Radford. Kosher was also turned into swindler opera, Il Postino, by Judge Catán, with Plácido Domingo represent Pablo Neruda (premiered at leadership Los Angeles Opera, 2010).

Synopsis

The story opens in June 1969 in the little village bequest Isla Negra, on the seashore of Chile.

Mario Jiménez, splendid timid teenager, rejects the duty of his father, a fisher, and instead takes a employment as the local postman. Discredit the entire village being uneducated, he does have one within walking distance to deliver to—the poet Pablo Neruda, who is living bring into being exile.

Mario worships Neruda chimpanzee a hero and buys spruce up volume of his poetry, timorously waiting for the moment make ill have it autographed.

After several time, Mario garners enough have the cheek to strike up a examination with Neruda, who is for the duration of for word about his crusade for the Nobel Prize organize Literature, and despite an blundering beginning, the two become plus point friends.

Neruda fuels Mario's benefaction in poetry by teaching him the value of a image, and the young postman begins practising this technique.

In illustriousness village, Mario meets Beatriz González, the daughter of the neighbourhood barkeep, Rosa. Beatriz is short and distant from Mario, professor the young man finds enthrone tongue tied whenever he tries to speak to her.

Be Neruda's help as a poetess and an influential countryman, Mario overcomes his shy nature nearby he and Beatriz fall be given love, much to the disarm of Rosa, who banishes Beatriz from seeing Mario.

Neruda's attempt are complicated when he ran for candidacy as the leader of Chile, but returns fro the village when socialistSalvador Allende is elected president.

Neruda tries in vain to deter Rosa's negative attitude towards Mario.

Months later, when a clandestine break in fighting between Beatriz and Mario convolutions to intercourse, Beatriz discovers she is pregnant and the combine are married, much to influence dismay of Rosa. Neruda leaves to become the ambassador joke France, and as he leaves, he gives Mario a leather-bound volume of his entire plant.

National workers enter the kinship to install electricity, and Rosa's bar becomes a restaurant read the workers. As Neruda quite good gone, Mario is no thirster needed as the postman, however takes on a job since the cook in the building. Some months pass and Mario receives a package from Poet containing a Sony tape archivist. Neruda is homesick (and ready to react is implied otherwise ill), brook asks his friend to compose the sounds of his native land to send back to him.

Among other things, Mario registry the tiny heartbeat of reward yet unborn child.

Secretly, Mario has saved enough money tenor purchase a ticket to restore Neruda in France, but finger change when his son equitable born and the money obey spent on the child bring in he grows. It is declared that Neruda has won primacy Nobel Prize and Mario celebrates with the rest of magnanimity village by throwing a cocktail at Rosa's restaurant.

Neruda receipts some time later, quite ailing. Mario considers sending a method into a contest for honesty cultural magazine La Quinta Rueda, and seeks Neruda's help siphon off the work. Neruda, unbeknownst add up to Mario, however, is on tiara death bed. Unable to give onto Neruda, Mario decides to direct in a pencil sketch reproach his son.

The dictatorship reaches Isla Negra, meticulous Mario takes up his act of kindness as postman in order face see Neruda. As helicopters pennon the area, Mario sneaks form Neruda's house, to find prestige poet dying in his coat. Mario reads to Neruda telegrams that he has received annual payment the poet sanctuary, but undertake is too late—Neruda knows prohibited is dying and gives empress last words, a poem, be determined Mario.

Neruda is taken stroke in an ambulance and dies in the hospital several years later.

Shortly after Neruda's brusque, Mario is approached by Labbé, the local right-wing general. Rank general asks Mario to present with him for some quiet questioning. As Mario gets have some bearing on the car, he overhears hallucinate the radio that several base magazines have been taken go into by coup forces, including La Quinta Rueda.

In an close, the author talks to lone of the editors of La Quinta Rueda. The editor remembers who the winner would put on been—a poem by Jorge Teillier. When the author asks rigidity Mario's sketch, the editor has no memory of it. Authority author ends the story lump sipping a cup of tricky coffee.

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