Mario Jiminez is a postman on a beautiful island just off the Italian mainland. His only regular delivery is to the house of the only literate resident, Pablo Neruda, Latin America's greatest poet. Mario begs Neruda for advice on how to seduce Beatriz, the girl of his dreams.
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"Love is so short...forgetting is so long",
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Postino, Il: The Postman by Antonio Skarmeta is translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver. This translation's copyright is 1987.
You've seen the film? You must read the novel! If you've done neither, then you must do both! If you are not interested in foreign language films, then at least read this rapturous novel- Postino, Il: The Postman. Reading literature and watching fine film are probably my favorite pastimes and I particularly love to read the books that inspire the films. Only recently did I come across an English translation of Antonio Skarmeta's Postino, Il: The Postman, his exquisite novel upon which the 1996 Italian film Il Postino was based. The tale is lovely, a bittersweet love story capturing the power of passion. This passion is aroused by first love and poetry, and not just any poetry, but the poetry of Latin America's most beloved, Nobel Peace Prize winning poet, Pablo Neruda. Mario Jiminez is a simple, young man in a small fishing village on the coast of Chile. Still a teenager, Mario does everything possible to avoid becoming a fisherman like his father. Instead he becomes a postman to deliver mail to the only literate occupant of the beautiful island just off the mainland. That occupant is the great poet, Pablo Neruda. Mario and the poet become unlikely friends and what this friendship engenders is a deeply moving meditation on the significance of poetry in life. Mario becomes a devoted student of Neruda and discovers the poetic gifts within himself... all those intrinsic, sensual, exhilarating metaphors of love and life. Postino, Il: The Postman is a short novel of only 118 pages, so I will not summarize the story here but rather leave the beauty of discovering its lyrical narrative, its poetic power and its great depth of meaning to you, the potential reader. Love is so short, Forgetting is so long. ~ Pablo Neruda From "Tonight I Can Write" If you enjoy poetry or would like a nice, accessible introduction to poetry, I also recommend Love: Ten Poems by Pablo Neruda. It is a bilingual collection of ten poems from the film. "Tonight I Can Write" that is quoted above is included.
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Poignant and humorous love story involving the poet Pablo Neruda. It also covers the military coup resulting in the assassination of the democratically elected socialist, Salvador Allende, and affecting the protagonist of this beautifully written short novel.
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