Book Description
First pub. 1950. Tale of the conquered of Mexico in 1521 and its aftermath.
Author : Octavio Paz
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802150424
First pub. 1950. Tale of the conquered of Mexico in 1521 and its aftermath.
Author : Octavio Paz
Publisher :
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 22,1 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Mexico
ISBN :
Author : Octavio Paz
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 32,48 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781559701372
One of the great minds of the 20th century,explores the duality of human nature in all its,variations in cultures around the world.,Fascinated by the polarity of being, Paz has,boldly attempted to write a |history of man|.,Unlike countless other histories that simply,chronicle civilizations and cultures, Paz's work,explores the human heart, the meaning of human,nature and the duality that exists within all,beings and, it would seem, all things. Ranging,across cultures and centuries, Paz explores,opposites and contradiction through the ages.
Author : Earl Shorris
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 32,35 MB
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 039334374X
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. "A work of scope and profound insight into the divided soul of Mexico." —History Today The Life and Times of Mexico is a grand narrative driven by 3,000 years of history: the Indian world, the Spanish invasion, Independence, the 1910 Revolution, the tragic lives of workers in assembly plants along the border, and the experiences of millions of Mexicans who live in the United States. Mexico is seen here as if it were a person, but in the Aztec way; the mind, the heart, the winds of life; and on every page there are portraits and stories: artists, shamans, teachers, a young Maya political leader; the rich few and the many poor. Earl Shorris is ingenious at finding ways to tell this story: prostitutes in the Plaza Loreto launch the discussion of economics; we are taken inside two crucial elections as Mexico struggles toward democracy; we watch the creation of a popular "telenovela" and meet the country's greatest living intellectual. The result is a work of magnificent scope and profound insight into the divided soul of Mexico.
Author : Octavio Paz
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 999 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1628721685
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).
Author : Octavio Paz
Publisher : New York : Grove Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 22,58 MB
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780394177731
Examines the historical development of the character and culture of modern Mexico, paying special attention to recent political unrest
Author : Anthony Stanton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release : 2008-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719048746
This book, Paz’s first book-length essay, is the most famous of his works and a modern classic. Published in Spanish in 1950, it is undoubtedly the most influential work that exists on problems of Mexican cultural identity. In this critical edition, Stanton introduces the work, explores the historical circumstances in which it was written, its textual genesis, sequels and its influence. He analyzes key elements of the essay, such as the structure, methodology, use of Freud, Jung, Marx, Nietzsche and the way it relates culture to history. This book contains questions and themes for discussion and a select bibliography.
Author : Enrique C. Orozco
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781465214409
Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 33,41 MB
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.
Author : Octavio Paz
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 17,92 MB
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1628723920
The Nobel Prize–winning poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide range of poets and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams; from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Luis Buñuel to Alexander Solzhenitsyn; and from Charles Baudelaire to Jean-Paul Sartre, André Breton, and Henri Michaux. Paz writes, “I believe that a writer’s attitude to language should be that of a lover: fidelity and, at the same time, a lack of respect for the beloved object. Veneration and transgression.” When this original thinker meets these writers, each essay is an adventure of the mind.