Neruda, Pablo [The Barcarolle]. La Barcarola. 

Buenos Aires, Losada, [1967].
8vo, 163, [2] pp., music. 

In original wrappers. Signed and inscribed to half title. 
In good condition, rubbed, tears and small losses to spine. 

Signed and inscribed by the author: 'para / Margarita Aligher / un abrazo / y siempre el mío / recuerdo / Pablo / Neruda / 1968 / Isla Negra' [‘For Margarita Aligher a hug and always my remembrance, Pablo Neruda 1968 Isla Negra’]. First edition. 

Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904–1973), recipient of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature, signed this book for Margarita Aliger (1915–1992), a Soviet poet, journalist, and translator who also translated his works.
In a memoir essay 'Chiliiskoe Leto' ('Chilean Summer') published in Moscow in 1966, Aliger recalled knowing Neruda personally. Although Neruda first visited the USSR in 1949 and returned several times afterward, they were not introduced on those occasions. She did not specify the exact year they met (likely in the 1950s or early 1960s) but wrote that their friendship began when she arrived in Santiago and received a phone call from Neruda, who introduced himself as her friend. Their connection grew from there: Aliger twice traveled with Neruda across Chile and stayed in his house at Isla Negra, on the central Chilean coast. She even dedicated the poem 'Tri Stikhotvoreniia o Poete' ('Three Poems to a Poet') to him.

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