![]() Argentine aristocrat, dilettante, habituée of fashionable expatriate circles in Paris, footloose divorcee, militant and organizer of Communist literary fronts, first lady (and later Queen Mother) of the Chilean cultural Left, and accomplished artist-engraver - small wonder that del Carril needed to live more than 100 years to be all these things and more.īorn to one of the patrician landowning families of Buenos Aires in 1884, del Carril was a rebel from the start, refusing to conform to the narrow puritanical expectations of her family and class. ![]() In Todo debe ser demasiado, however, the Chilean playwright and novelist Fernando Sáez ( Allegro ma non troppo, El aire visible) has provided the other side of the story. ![]() An expert in airbrushing history, particularly his own, until now Neruda has proved to be quite effective in consigning his first wife to the black hole of memory. ![]() In his posthumously published autobiography, Confieso que he vivido (1974), the Chilean poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda refers to Delia del Carril as his “perfect mate for eighteen years”, but only in passing. Reseña del libro «Todo debe ser demasiado, biografía de Delia del Carril» de Fernando Sáez que saldrá en mayo de 2021 con la editorial Fiction Advocate, traducido por Jessica Sequeira.
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