by François Maspero, Antonio Skármeta · Seuil · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020095204
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«Une ardente patience» is the novel by Antonio Skármeta translated into French by François Maspero, published by Seuil in paperback (155 pages).
In his refuge at Isla Negra, Pablo Neruda strikes up a friendship with the young postman Mario Jiménez. Mario asks the poet to teach him the art of poetry to win over the beautiful Beatriz González, daughter of the innkeeper. Their story runs parallel to the rise of the Popular Unity and the triumph of Salvador Allende, with the tragedy of Chile as its horizon.
Original title: Ardiente paciencia, published in Spanish in 1985. Adapted to film as Il postino (1994), by Michael Radford.
For readers of Latin American fiction, admirers of Pablo Neruda, and those seeking a story of friendship and poetry with a historical backdrop.
François Maspero was a French author and journalist, best known as a publisher of leftist books in the 1970s. He also worked as a translator, translating the works of Joseph Conrad, Mehdi Ben Barka, and John Reed, author of Ten Days that Shook the World, among others. He was awarded the Prix Décembre in 1990 for Les Passagers du Roissy-Express.
