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Author
Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz was born in 1914 in Mexico City. He wrote many volumes of poetry, as well as a prolific body of remarkable works of nonfiction on subjects as varied as poetics, literary and art criticism, politics, culture, and Mexican history. In 1980 he was awarded an honorary doctrine at Harvard. In 1981 he won the Cervantes Prize and the following year the prestigious Neustadt Prize. Later he won the German Peace Prize and in 1990 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1998.
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Alternating Current
Octavio Paz
2005 Edition
A key figure in the Latin American literary renaissance, Octavio Paz focuses here on literature and art, drugs, the murder of God, and ethical and political problems.
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Conjunctions and Disjunctions
Octavio Paz
2005 Edition
One of the great minds of the 20th century explores the duality of human nature in all its variations in cultures around the world.
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On Poets and Others
Octavio Paz
2005 Edition
The philosopher-man of letters brilliantly reflects on some sixteen fellow poets and writers. "A perfect introduction to Octavio Paz."—Los Angeles Times
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Marcel Duchamp
Appearance Stripped Bare
Octavio Paz
2005 Edition
“Octavio Paz . . . conveys his awareness of Duchamp as a great cautionary figure in our culture, warning us with jest and quiet scandals of the menacing encroachment of criticism, science and even art.” —New York Times Book Review
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The Monkey Grammarian
Octavio Paz
1990 Edition
Written while Paz was the Mexican ambassador to India, The Monkey Grammarian is a dazzling mind-journey to the temple city of Galta, "a sumptuous feast of visual imagery."—San Francisco Chronicle
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