Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: Ecco
ISBN: 9780156010719
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The final legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Labyrinth of Solitude Itinerary records the evolution of the political ideas of Octavio Paz, the great Mexican writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. It is an intellectual autobiography, in a sense, but also a sentimental and even passionate one. In his thoughts Paz realized the past was inseparable from the present. And so he tells the story of his journey through time, from youth to adulthood. It is not a straight line, nor is it a circle; it is instead a spiral that turns ceaselessly over, bringing into view a time seventy years in the past and the actions of today. It is the final work by a great thinker and a magnificent writer.
Itinerary
Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: Ecco
ISBN: 9780156010719
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The final legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Labyrinth of Solitude Itinerary records the evolution of the political ideas of Octavio Paz, the great Mexican writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. It is an intellectual autobiography, in a sense, but also a sentimental and even passionate one. In his thoughts Paz realized the past was inseparable from the present. And so he tells the story of his journey through time, from youth to adulthood. It is not a straight line, nor is it a circle; it is instead a spiral that turns ceaselessly over, bringing into view a time seventy years in the past and the actions of today. It is the final work by a great thinker and a magnificent writer.
Publisher: Ecco
ISBN: 9780156010719
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The final legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Labyrinth of Solitude Itinerary records the evolution of the political ideas of Octavio Paz, the great Mexican writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. It is an intellectual autobiography, in a sense, but also a sentimental and even passionate one. In his thoughts Paz realized the past was inseparable from the present. And so he tells the story of his journey through time, from youth to adulthood. It is not a straight line, nor is it a circle; it is instead a spiral that turns ceaselessly over, bringing into view a time seventy years in the past and the actions of today. It is the final work by a great thinker and a magnificent writer.
An Introduction to Octavio Paz
Author: Alberto Ruy Sanchez
Publisher: Mosaic Press
ISBN: 1771611510
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
An Introduction to Octavio Paz is a valuable and concise primer to the ideas of the world renowned Mexican writer and Nobel Prize winner. Written and edited by Alberto Ruy Sánchez, a well-respected writer whom Paz considered one of Mexico's best essayists, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the vast literary, intellectual, and poetic legacy of Mexico's greatest writer. Paz thought of poetry as revelatory creation and activity, and Ruy Sánchez takes this idea as a guide for his book, as he unravels Paz's complex life and huge bibliography. For every reader who wants to look deep into the literary labyrinth of Mexico's emblematic writer, this proves an indispensable handbook.
Publisher: Mosaic Press
ISBN: 1771611510
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
An Introduction to Octavio Paz is a valuable and concise primer to the ideas of the world renowned Mexican writer and Nobel Prize winner. Written and edited by Alberto Ruy Sánchez, a well-respected writer whom Paz considered one of Mexico's best essayists, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the vast literary, intellectual, and poetic legacy of Mexico's greatest writer. Paz thought of poetry as revelatory creation and activity, and Ruy Sánchez takes this idea as a guide for his book, as he unravels Paz's complex life and huge bibliography. For every reader who wants to look deep into the literary labyrinth of Mexico's emblematic writer, this proves an indispensable handbook.
A Tale of Two Gardens
Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213493
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Octavio Paz, 1990 Nobel Prize winner, declares that his many nonfiction books on the subject of India are only footnotes to his India poems. Those collected here cover more than 40 years of Paz's many and various commitments to Indiaas Mexican ambassador, student of Indian philosophy, and, above all, poet. "Paz's poetry is a seismograph of our century's turbulence, a crossroads where East meets West".PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213493
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Octavio Paz, 1990 Nobel Prize winner, declares that his many nonfiction books on the subject of India are only footnotes to his India poems. Those collected here cover more than 40 years of Paz's many and various commitments to Indiaas Mexican ambassador, student of Indian philosophy, and, above all, poet. "Paz's poetry is a seismograph of our century's turbulence, a crossroads where East meets West".PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.
Selected Poems
Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: Viking Penguin
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : es
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher: Viking Penguin
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : es
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987
Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811211734
Category : Poetry
Languages : es
Pages : 692
Book Description
Contains almost 200 collected poems in both Spanish and English.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811211734
Category : Poetry
Languages : es
Pages : 692
Book Description
Contains almost 200 collected poems in both Spanish and English.
Miserable Miracle
Author: Henri Michaux
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590170016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
"This book is an exploration. By means of words, signs, drawings. Mescaline, the subject explored." In Miserable Miracle, the great French poet and artist Henri Michaux, a confirmed teetotaler, tells of his life-transforming first encounters with a powerful hallucinogenic drug. At once lacerating and weirdly funny, challenging and Chaplinesque, his book is a breathtaking vision of interior space and a piece of stunning writing wrested from the grip of the unspeakable. Includes forty pages of black-and-white drawings.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590170016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
"This book is an exploration. By means of words, signs, drawings. Mescaline, the subject explored." In Miserable Miracle, the great French poet and artist Henri Michaux, a confirmed teetotaler, tells of his life-transforming first encounters with a powerful hallucinogenic drug. At once lacerating and weirdly funny, challenging and Chaplinesque, his book is a breathtaking vision of interior space and a piece of stunning writing wrested from the grip of the unspeakable. Includes forty pages of black-and-white drawings.
Essays on Mexican Art
Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: Harvest Books
ISBN: 9780156000611
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Essays discuss pre-Columbian art, the influence of European art on the Mexican muralists, and the abstract art of Tamayo
Publisher: Harvest Books
ISBN: 9780156000611
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Essays discuss pre-Columbian art, the influence of European art on the Mexican muralists, and the abstract art of Tamayo
Alternating Current
Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1628721685
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In its front-page review of Alternating Current, The New York Times Book Review called Octavio Paz “an intellectual literary one-man band” for his ability to write incisively and with dazzling originality about a wide range of subjects. This collection of his essays is divided into three parts. Part 1 sets forth his credo as an artist and poet, steeped in his knowledge of world literature and Mexican art and history and buttressed by readings of writers from Mexican poet Luis Cernuda to D. H. Lawrence, Malcolm Lowry, André Breton, and Carlos Fuentes. Part 2 deals with themes such as Western individualism versus plurality and flux in Eastern philosophy, atheism versus belief, nihilism, liberated man, and versions of paradise. In Part 3, Paz writes of politics and ethics in essays on revolt and revolution, existentialism, Marxism, the third world, and the new face of Latin America. A scintillating thinker and a prescient voice on emerging world culture, Paz reveals himself here as “a man of electrical passions, paradoxical visions, alternating currents of thoughts, and feeling that runs hot but never cold” (Christian Science Monitor).
Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1628721685
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In its front-page review of Alternating Current, The New York Times Book Review called Octavio Paz “an intellectual literary one-man band” for his ability to write incisively and with dazzling originality about a wide range of subjects. This collection of his essays is divided into three parts. Part 1 sets forth his credo as an artist and poet, steeped in his knowledge of world literature and Mexican art and history and buttressed by readings of writers from Mexican poet Luis Cernuda to D. H. Lawrence, Malcolm Lowry, André Breton, and Carlos Fuentes. Part 2 deals with themes such as Western individualism versus plurality and flux in Eastern philosophy, atheism versus belief, nihilism, liberated man, and versions of paradise. In Part 3, Paz writes of politics and ethics in essays on revolt and revolution, existentialism, Marxism, the third world, and the new face of Latin America. A scintillating thinker and a prescient voice on emerging world culture, Paz reveals himself here as “a man of electrical passions, paradoxical visions, alternating currents of thoughts, and feeling that runs hot but never cold” (Christian Science Monitor).
The Double Flame
Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156003650
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A collection of essays examines the themes of love and sex in literature, from Plato to modern fiction.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156003650
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A collection of essays examines the themes of love and sex in literature, from Plato to modern fiction.
The Siren and the Seashell
Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN: 0292753470
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Octavio Paz has long been known for his brilliant essays as well as for his poetry. Through the essays, he has sought to confront the tensions inherent in the conflict between art and society and to achieve a unity of their polarities. The Siren and the Seashell is a collection of Paz’s essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general. The first five poets he treats are Latin American: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rubén Darío, José Juan Tablada, Ramón López Velarde, and Alfonso Reyes. Then there are essays on Robert Frost, e. e. cummings, Saint-John Perse, Antonio Machado, and Jorge Guillén. Finally, there are Paz’s reflections on the poetry of solitude and communion and the literature of Latin America. Each essay is more than Paz’s impressions of one person or issue; each is the occasion for a wider discussion of cultural, historical, psychological, and philosophical themes. The essays were selected from Paz’s writing between 1942 and 1965 and provide an overview of the development of his thinking and an exploration of the ideas central in his works.
Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN: 0292753470
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Octavio Paz has long been known for his brilliant essays as well as for his poetry. Through the essays, he has sought to confront the tensions inherent in the conflict between art and society and to achieve a unity of their polarities. The Siren and the Seashell is a collection of Paz’s essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general. The first five poets he treats are Latin American: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rubén Darío, José Juan Tablada, Ramón López Velarde, and Alfonso Reyes. Then there are essays on Robert Frost, e. e. cummings, Saint-John Perse, Antonio Machado, and Jorge Guillén. Finally, there are Paz’s reflections on the poetry of solitude and communion and the literature of Latin America. Each essay is more than Paz’s impressions of one person or issue; each is the occasion for a wider discussion of cultural, historical, psychological, and philosophical themes. The essays were selected from Paz’s writing between 1942 and 1965 and provide an overview of the development of his thinking and an exploration of the ideas central in his works.