The Book of Questions
The Book of Questions, published posthumously (1974), is a collection of poetic fragments, brought together in 74 short poems consisting entirely of questions. At once playful, philosophical and surreal, these 314 unanswered questions explore both everyday things and phenomena and the great existential themes; they invite the reader to reflect on the mystery of the world, rather than to seek definitive answers.
Accessible to the youngest readers in its form, yet inexhaustible for adults in its depth – often described as ‘Neruda’s poetic legacy’ - The Book of Questions grows alongside its readers.
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. Neruda assumed his pen name as a teenager, partly because it was in vogue, partly to hide his poetry from his father, a rigid man who wanted his son to have a "practical" occupation. Neruda's pen name was derived from Czech writer and poet Jan Neruda; Pablo is thought to be from Paul Verlaine. With his works translated into many languages, Pablo Neruda is considered one of the greatest and most influential poets of the 20th century.
Neruda was accomplished in a variety of styles ranging from erotically charged love poems like his collection Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair, surrealist poems, historical epics, and overtly political manifestos. In 1971 Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature, a controversial award because of his political activism.
Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez once called him "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language."
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