![]() ![]() ![]() After a year in hiding, he escaped on horseback over the Andes, then to Europe and Asia. Neruda, a communist, was driven from his senate seat in 1948, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. From there, his memoir follows his travels as a globetrotting Chilean consul-including a stint in Spain during its civil war, and in Mexico, where he attracted attention for aiding a man suspected of conspiring to assassinate Leon Trotsky-and his short-lived service as a Chilean senator. A motherless, pensive child in the wild, he began writing poems long before quitting the countryside for Santiago, where he spent his bohemian student years. Southern Chile was an open frontier when the beloved poet Pablo Neruda was born there in 1904. ![]()
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