Fifty years after Augusto Pinochet’s coup d’état in Chile, the wounds inflicted by the military dictatorship have still not healed. Numerous judicial investigations into human rights violations are still ongoing. One of the most emblematic is undoubtedly the Pablo Neruda affair.
Twelve days after the coup d’état in 1973, the famous Nobel Prize winner for literature, communist activist and brilliant diplomat prepared to leave his native country to take refuge in Chile. He has prostate cancer, but he can still travel. His bags are ready. But he will never leave. Pablo Neruda dies in room 406 of the Santa Maria clinic in Santiago, Chile. What is the cause of his death? Was he murdered? With his book Room 406: the Pablo Neruda affairjournalist Laurie Fachaux-Cygan delivers the fascinating behind-the-scenes story of the judicial investigation into the death of Pablo Neruda and Chile in the 1970s.