Octavio Paz

Examines Mexican character and culture, pre-Columbian societies, and relations between Mexico and the United States

The Labyrinth of Solitude ; The Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre

El laberinto de la soledad

This landmarked bilingual edition gathers all the poetry the 1990 Nobel Laureate has published in book form since 1957, the year his long poem "Sunstone"--her translated anew--made its first appearance. Included are the complete texts of "Days and Occasions", "Solo for Two Voices", "A Drift of Shadows", "East Slope", "Toward the Beginning", and more; plus Paz's most recent collection, A Tree Within.

The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987

Nobel laureate Octavio Paz's premier long poem Sunstone/Piedra de Sol is here presented as a separate volume, with beautiful illustrations from an eighteenth-century treatise on the Mexican calendar.

Piedra de Sol

A collection of essays examines the themes of love and sex in literature, from Plato to modern fiction

Love and Eroticism

The Double Flame

Eliot Weinberger

Collects the author's poetry spanning his entire writing career, including his first published poem as well as his last, along with a biographical note and notes on the poems taken from interviews with the author.

The Poems of Octavio Paz

Wei Wang

Nineteen different translations of a single poem with comments on each version by Eliot Weinberger and introduction contributed by Octavio Paz.

How a Chinese Poem is Translated

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

Octavio Paz Lozano

Bilingual text presents the most outstanding lyrical works of the Mexican poet, including Sun Stone and Blanco

Configurations

El laberinto de la soledad / Postdata / Vuelta a El laberinto de la soledad

Reflexiones de Octavio Paz sobre el fenomeno poetico. En la primera parte del libro, examina la naturaleza del poema y hace un analisis de sus componentes: lenguaje, ritmo e imagen. En la segunda parte, examina las diferencias y semejanzas entre la experiencia poetica y la religiosa, dedica un capitulo al tema de la inspiracion y concluye afirmando que la experiencia poetica es irreductible a cualquier otra.

El Arco y la Lira

La obra, es una colección que reúne lo mejor de los textos publicados a lo largo de la prolífera vida del gran escritor por más de cincuenta años, sin plazo fijo y poco a poco. Su poesía se caracteriza por el fragmentarismo, la simultaneidad, la supresión de nexos sintácticos, el lenguaje conversacional, el poema extenso, el resquebrajamiento de la imagen del mundo y la incorporación de la historia en el poema. Entre los títulos más conocidos que contiene este volumen se encuentran: Bajo tu clara sombra, Calamidades y milagros, Semillas para un himno, Águila o sol? y La estación violenta. El propio autor colaboró aclarando problemas del texto y señalando las fuentes de algunas alusiones que aparecen en esta edición.

Libertad bajo palabra (1935-1957)

Paz looks at the people and landscapes of India, based on his years with the Mexican embassy, offering a collection of essays on Indian history, culture, art, politics, language, and philosophy

In Light of India

As well as the nine essays on his country's psyche and history that make up The Labyrinth of Solitude, this highly acclaimed volume also includes The Other Mexico, Paz's heartfelt response to the government massacre of over three hundred students in Mexico City in 1968, and Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, in which he discusses his famous work with Claude Fell. The two final essays contain further reflections on the Mexican government.

The Labyrinth of Solitude

Essays on Art and Literature

Convergences

Octavio Paz palabras en espiral

Life and Thought in Mexico

The Nobel Prize-winning poet comments on the nature, communicative function, and evolution of modern poetry.

Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-garde

Children of the Mire

Xavier Villaurrutia

Poetry by Xavier Villaurrutia, one of the few openly homo-sexual Latin American writers of his time, presented here with a book-length critical study by Nobel Laureate, Octavio Paz. --Copper Canyon Press. The latest of Eliot Weinberger's brilliant translations of Latin American poets brings to English the major volume of an impeccable Mexican modernist. --Booklist.

Poetry

Nostalgia for Death

A bilingual edition of the short prose poetry written by Mexico's most distinguished living poet in 1949-50

Octavio Paz

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