"Every time I felt the need to recover my country, I read Neruda because he is Chile, he is the voice of Chile. It is a beautiful metaphor that he died following the military coup. With his death, the voice of the people and the voice of freedom grew silent."
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Isabel Allende, Interviews with Latin American writers by Marie Lise Gazarian Gautier (1989)
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