Mala lengua

Cranky, always controversial, he went through a good part of the century winning friends and detractors, writing an immense and fundamental work, many times unknown, while that of his generation companions -including Mistral, Neruda and Huidobro- began to become known to the world. De Rokha's is a story full of lost pieces that Álvaro Bisama rebuilds admirably. How his clan and family were assembling, the sudden love story with Winétt, his complex adherence to the Communist Party, the story of himself that he built in his work, the tragic deaths that mourned his days, among other circumstances, draw life here of the poet and a historical moment that saw the birth of the great geniuses of Chilean poetry. Bad language is that and it is also a fascinating account of the cultural and social changes that marked the Latin American twentieth century by fire.