Throughout his life, Pablo Neruda wrote an infinite number of poems dedicated to each person, animal, mineral, and thing which inhabits the universe. And after his death, poems continued to appear and were converted into more books, in case someone was missing to sing about. Of all these last books, this Book of Questions is one of the most exceptional. It was published for the first time by the Argentinean Publisher, Losada, in 1974; in Spain, the first edition was created by Seix Barral in 1977.

According to several commentators, the book is a type of poetic testament where the astonished gaze of a child becomes that of a wise man. According to others, it represents the poet's re-encounter with several early enthusiasms: the "lunerías" of Lorca, the "greguerías" of Ramón and the Avante Garde "crazy pranks".

Isidro Ferrer, the illustrator of this edition of Book of Questions, works for adults and children alike. He works above all for himself, which is the best way to always succeed. And instead of proposing impossible answers to impossible questions, he has pursued the impossible maxim, which is to convert a book of poems into a little theatre half way between La Barraca of Lorca and the Circus of Calder. Neruda plays the role of Neruda as well as the Captain of the Yellow Submarine, where Isidro represents all the other roles.

--