Everything you need to understand or teach Chilean Poet by Alejandro Zambra.
In Alejandro Zambra's novel Chilean Poet, aspiring poet Gonzalo falls in love with Carla as a teenager. Following their breakup, Gonzalo becomes increasingly reliant upon poetry to express his heartbreak. Over the course of the following decades, Gonzalo and Carla see each other on and off. Their evolving and devolving relationship challenges Gonzalo's understanding of himself, of art, and of family. His relationship with Carla's son Vicente is particularly significant to the way in which Gonzalo sees the world and confronts the future. The novel explores themes including poetry and language, fatherhood and family, and memory and the past.
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