Adam - by Vicente Huidobro (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p><em>Adam</em> is a young man's book, but it represents a major advance for Huidobro. Written 1914-1916 and published July 1916, the work was rapidly left behind as he adopted more avant-garde forms, but it still repays one's attention today.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>Adán</em>, published in 1916, is Huidobro's earliest mature work and his first attempt at free verse. While still full of rhetorical gestures from his previous symbolist (or <em>modernista</em>) style, heavily influenced by Rubén Darío, the book shows the author moving into very new territory, if at this stage not fully able to cast off his previous allegiances.</p><p> It is fair to say that the book would today be forgotten, were it not for the author's spectacular later career, but it retains some interest as a transitional volume, albeit not as much as that demonstrated by <em>El espejo de agua</em> (The Water Mirror), also first published in 1916, but written after <em>Adam</em>. </p><p> <em>Adam</em> is a young man's book, embarrassingly so at times, as the author proudly sets out his stall, but it represents a major leap forward. With his claim to Emersonian influence, his dismissal of traditional Hispanophone poetry in the Preface, and that typically outrageous tone-one we will meet many times in his later works, where he shouts from the rooftops, "Look at me!", and lays into his perceived enemies-it's hard to ignore the fact that Huidobro was all of 21 when he began this poem. The sins of youth, indeed.</p><p><br></p>
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