Toward Octavio Paz

Toward Octavio Paz
Title Toward Octavio Paz PDF eBook
Author John M. Fein
Publisher University Press of Kentucky
Pages 210
Release 2021-10-21
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0813186145

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The undisputed intellectual leadership of Octavio Paz, not only in Mexico but throughout Spanish America, rests on achievements in the essay and in poetry. In the field of the essay, he is the author of more than twenty-five books on subjects whose diversity—esthetics, politics, surrealist art, the Mexican character, cultural anthropology, and Eastern philosophy, to cite only a few—is dazzling. In poetry, his creativity has increased in vigor over more than fifty years as he has explored the numerous possibilities open to Hispanic poets from many different sources. The bridge that joins the halves of his writing is a concern for language in general and for the poetic process in particular. Toward Octavio Paz defines this process of creation through a close examination of the books that represent the summit of the poet's development, three long poems and three collections. It is intended for readers of varied poetic experience who are approaching Paz's work for the first time. By studying the relationship of the parts of the poem, particularly structure and theme, Fein traces the poet's growth through approaches to the reader, each embodied in a separate work. From the divided circularity of Piedra de sol through the intensification of the subject of Salamandra, the multiple meanings of Blanco, the polarities of Ladera este, and the literary solipsism of Pasado en claro, to the silences of Vuelta, Paz has shaped his audience's responses to his work through suggestion rather than control. The result is not only a new poetry but a new receptivity.

Children of the Mire

Children of the Mire
Title Children of the Mire PDF eBook
Author Octavio Paz
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 212
Release 1991
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780674116290

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Octavio Paz launches a far-ranging excursion into the "incestuous and tempestuous" relations between modern poetry and the modern epoch. From the perspective of a Spanish-American and a poet, he explores the opposite meanings that the word "modern" has held for poets and philosophers, artists, and scientists. Tracing the beginnings of the modern poetry movement to the pre-Romantics, Paz outlines its course as a contradictory dialogue between the poetry of the Romance and Germanic languages. He discusses at length the unique character of Anglo-American "modernism" within the avant-garde movement, and especially vis- -vis French and Spanish-American poetry. Finally he offers a critique of our era's attitude toward the concept of time, affirming that we are at the "twilight of the idea of the future." He proposes that we are living at the end of the avant-garde, the end of that vision of the world and of art born with the first Romantics.

The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987

The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987
Title The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987 PDF eBook
Author Octavio Paz
Publisher New Directions Publishing
Pages 692
Release 1991
Genre Poetry
ISBN 9780811211734

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Contains almost 200 collected poems in both Spanish and English.

A Tree Within

A Tree Within
Title A Tree Within PDF eBook
Author Octavio Paz
Publisher New Directions Publishing
Pages 180
Release 1988
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780811210713

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A Tree Within (Arbol Adentro), the first collection of new poems by the great Mexican author Octavio Paz since his Return (Vuelta) of 1975, was originally published as the final section of The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987. Among these later poems is a series of works dedicated to such artists as Miró, Balthus, Duchamp, Rauschenberg, Tapies, Alechinsky, Monet, and Matta, as well as a number of epigrammatic and Chinese-like lyrics. Two remarkable long poems --"I Speak of the City," a Whitmanesque apocalyptic evocation of the contemporary urban nightmare, and "Letter of Testimony," a meditation on love and death--are emblematic of the mature poet in a prophetic voice.

Itinerary

Itinerary
Title Itinerary PDF eBook
Author Octavio Paz
Publisher Ecco
Pages 0
Release 2001
Genre Europe
ISBN 9780156010719

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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.

The Monkey Grammarian

The Monkey Grammarian
Title The Monkey Grammarian PDF eBook
Author Octavio Paz Lozano
Publisher
Pages
Release 1988-01
Genre
ISBN 9780805001914

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The Double Flame

The Double Flame
Title The Double Flame PDF eBook
Author Octavio Paz
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 292
Release 1996
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9780156003650

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