After the incident, Neruda did not keep quiet. When he was about to return to his home country, in August 1943, he gave an interview to the magazine Hoy in which he said that the best thing Mexico had was its agronomists and that Mexican poetry lacked a civic ethic. He also said that the Mexican novel was represented by great writers (Juan de la Cabada, Emilio Abreu Gomez, Jose Revueltas, and Andres Henestrosa) who had expressed a new form of classicism--and that by contrast, the essay in Mexico had been perverted by an anemic generation. That same month, Paz responded with a farewell to...
- 9/24/2010
- by Jaime Perales Contreras, Latin Cinema Examiner
- Examiner Movies Channel
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