Resource Package for:El cartero de Neruda
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El cartero de Neruda
by Antonio Skármeta (Chile)
Novel, 140 pages (1985)
An unschooled local boy has no interest in working as a fisherman like his father and accepts a job as postman to the famous Chilean poet Pablo Neruda in the coastal village of Isla Negra. Mario’s ardent desire to woo the village siren inspires him to create some poetic verses of his own as camaraderie develops between him and the reclusive poet. Meanwhile, tension is building toward the military coup that deposed President Salvador Allende and installed as dictator Augusto Pinochet on 9/11/73.
The acclaimed Italian film, Il postino, is based on this Chilean novel.
(See also Los días del arcoíris by Skármeta.)
For low advanced level and above; adult readers
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ISBN: 978-607-314-747-7 or
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Gilda Turitz (verified owner) –
The resource package for this novel was very useful, even for advanced readers. In addition to providing definitions for vocabulary and expressions, there is a wealth of information about the historical and political context to facilitate understanding of what was going on in Chile, as well as information about Pablo Neruda.