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In his view, rightly enough, Ambiguous syntax is one of the most fascinating aspects of Neruda’s manner of proceeding in all his complex poems, yet it is a feature which is peculiarly tantalizing to translators. They can rarely hope to establish a corresponding ambiguity, and therefore have either to opt between layers of meaning, or else to give the grammatical sense of a single layer while trying to suggest the others by words which carry heightened and conflicting associations, as Tarn does.
As early as 1969, Emir Rodríguez Monegal—an influential figure who, as an expert in both Spanish American and Brazilian literature and as a Latin American intellectual thoroughly familiar with the United States, was instrumental in bringing the two cultures together—pointed out that this problem with how Latin American writers and texts were then being (mis)read in the United States could be solved only by a greater awareness of Latin American literature and culture on the part of Americans. And while it was evident to just a few scholars at the time, a major aspect of this heightened awareness had to be a realization that Latin America was “American” too, that its writers and thinkers spoke to the larger questions of hemispheric identity with as much validity as did commentators from North America, perhaps more so.
And yet, with all of his fame, Neruda is just beginning to be known in the Translation and the Liberation of Brazilian and Spanish American Literature 29 United States. Although admired by a group of poets, who are not really a group at all but spread out all over the country, in the United States his influence on younger poets has been minimal. “No writer of world-renown is perhaps so little known to North America as the Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda,” Seldon Rodman wrote recently. (Hochman, 19–20) While this situation was partly due, in the early 1960s, to a relative paucity of translations, it was also a function of American disdain toward Spanish as a language and toward Spanish American literature in general.