During the course of his life Pablo Neruda wrote countless poems dedicated to every person, animal, mineral and object in the universe. After his death, poems kept appearing to fill more books, in case anyone had been left out. Of all these later books, the Book of Questions is one of the most exceptional. It was published for the first time by the Argentinian publishers Losada in 1974; the first Spanish edition was brought out by Seix Barral in 1977. Isidro Ferrer, the illustrator of the Book of Questions, works for both adults and children. Above all he works for himself, thus guaranteeing success. Rather than suggesting impossible answers to impossible questions, he has taken impossibility to extremes by turning a book of poems into a little theatre, half way between Lorca's La Barraca and Calder's circus.