Bibliograph

Venture of the infinite man, Pablo Neruda ; translated by Jessica Powell ; with an introduction by Mark Eisner

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Venture of the infinite man, Pablo Neruda ; translated by Jessica Powell ; with an introduction by Mark Eisner

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

Venture of the infinite man

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Pablo Neruda ; translated by Jessica Powell ; with an introduction by Mark Eisner

Summary

Venture of the Infinite Man was Neruda's third book, published in 1926, two years after his widely celebrated and still much beloved Twenty Love Poems. In a stark stylistic departure from the love poems, Neruda discarded rhyme, meter, punctuation and capitalization in an attempt to better capture the voice of the subconscious. In an epic poem comprised of fifteen cantos spread over 44 un-numbered pages, the Infinite Man sets forth on a virtual sleepwalk through time and space, on a quest to atone for his past and to rediscover himself. Neruda's readers were not prepared for this experiment, and Venture did not garner the reception Neruda had hoped for

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