In this way “La Chascona” was reborn and in the actuality is a house–museum which destiny is to spread the life of the poet by making possible the access to the intimate ambient in which he lived and created. Matilde made a big effort to fix the damages of the house she had built with Neruda, and she continued living in it until her death in 1985.
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She together with a few friends spent that night in the broken windows living room. The ditch so loved by the poet was obstructed and the house was flooded, it had to be placed some wood slabs over the mud in order to make possible the entrance of his remains, since Matilde Urrutia insisted to have his funeral in there. “La Chascona had been object of vandalism acts. On September 23rd, 1973, days after the military coup which overthrow President Salvador Allende, Neruda died at the Santa Maria Clinic of Santiago. “La Chascona” had its death and resurrection. For then Rodriguez Arias had returned to Europe. The architect Carlos Martner was in charge of the latest additions in 1958. Afterwards a bar and a library were built. The house had kept growing with the addition of a kitchen and a dining room. In February 1955, Neruda was separated from Delia del Carril and he moved in to “La Chascona”. This is one of the pieces shown in the house – museum today. If you pay attention to her hair, you could see to appear the diffused profile of Neruda, the lover who was still remained hidden. Among them the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, who painted a portrait of Matilde with two heads. Many of Neruda’s friends were participants of the guarded secret of “La Chascona”. “I worked all day in my garden – she remember – there was not a single tree or plant I didn’t choose and planted with my own hands…” Meanwhile, the poet was still living with his wife, Delia del Carril, in Michoacan, as he named his house in Lynch street, in Ñuñoa neighbourhood. At that time Matilde was living alone in the house. Lijdend aan flebitis in 1949, werd Neruda behandeld door Urrutia. Initially only the living room and a bedroom was built. Pablo Neruda en Matilde Urrutia ontmoetten elkaar in Santiago in 1946, toen ze werkte als fysiotherapeut.Ze is de eerste vrouw die als kindertherapeut werkt in Latijns-Amerika. German Rodriguez had to acknowledge the house ended up being more a creation of Neruda than his own. He was occupied personally in the task of looking for woods and other materials, discussing and modifying details. He brought cypress tree logs for the living room from the south. This was not the only intervention of the poet. But, Neruda wanted the view towards the cordillera, so he turned around the house in the plan. He projected the building oriented toward the sun, it meant facing the city. When he saw such a steep terrain, he predict that the habitants of the house were condemned to live going up and down the stairs. The construction was encomended to the Catalan architect German Rodriguez Arias. Later, in his poem “La Chascona”, from the book La Barcarola, Neruda evoked the “water that runs writing in its language”, and the blackberries “which guard the place with its bloody branches”. Both of them were filled with enthusiasm and decided to buy it. It seemed covered by blackberries and it had a sharp slope “we were bewitched for a water sound – Matilde wrote in her memories -, it was a real waterfall which came from the channel, at the top of the lot”. (Oct.Matilde remember an afternoon in which they were walking by the neighbourhood, that today is called Bellavista, they found a property for sale, at the bottom of the San Cristobal hill. Her graceful prose offers not only a glimpse of her life with the great poet but also a portrait of the nobility of suffering under an unjust political regime. an abundance of joy, but it would also bring us grief and desperation." Urrutia draws strength from her husband's writings after his death as she faces her fears of remaining silent in the face of injustice.
"Our easygoing, playful friendship, which we had considered to be at most simply mischievous, had just transformed into a complicated battle of emotions. Sandwiched between accounts of Neruda's death shortly after the Pinochet coup in 1973 and her own persecution by the Chilean government are Urrutia's lyrical reminiscences of her love with Neruda.
Neruda had to flee Chile because of his political views, and Urrutia soon joined him, inaugurating this famed literary romance. Memorialized by the Nobel laureate in his poems as "Rosario" and as the woman with Medusa-like hair, Urrutia was first glimpsed by Neruda at a concert in 1946, but it was three years before they met again, when she became his nurse as he was recovering from phlebitis. Much like Chilean poet Neruda's own glittering lyrics, his muse and widow Urrutia has penned a memoir that sparkles freshly with a love of family, nature and homeland.
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