Octavio Paz Libri

Il modo migliore per celebrare uno scrittore è leggere le sue opere. E per festeggiare il centenario di uno dei più autorevoli intellettuali di tutti i tempi, il Premio Nobel messicano Octavio Paz, arriva ora questo prezioso libro autobiografico. Costruito dal curatore Julio Hubard sulla base di una serie di articoli, frammenti, saggi e versi di Paz, il libro ripercorre la vita e l’opera dell’autore in ordine cronologico, dall’infanzia fino agli ultimi giorni, passando per la formazione letteraria, la passione politica, l’amore per la poesia, i viaggi, i riconoscimenti, la malattia, i ricordi personali. Un approfondito riesame di alcuni dei momenti fondanti della storia sociale, politica e artistica del Messico e del suo poeta più appassionato.

Nobel laureate Octavio Paz's premier long poem "Sunstone" is now a handsome illustrated paperbook. Presented here in a new translation with the Spanish texts en face, this is the 1957 poem that helped established Paz as a major international figure. Includes beautiful illustrations from an 18th-century treatise on the Mexican calendar.

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.

Octavio Paz, the 1990 Nobel Laureate, has won distinction as an anthropologist, philosopher and critic of art and literature. But it is as a poet that he is most celebrated. Configurations was his first major collection to be published in this country, and includes in their entirety Sun Stone (1957) and Blanco (1967). Paz himself translated many of the poems from the Spanish. Some distinguished contributors to this bilingual edition include, among others, Paul Blackburn, Lysander Kemp, Denise Levertov, and Muriel Rukeyser.

"In The Double Flame, Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love - themes that have been a constant in his writing, from his first published poems to the great works of his maturity. Beginning with Plato's Symposium, he gives a short history of love and eroticism in literature throughout the ages: from the influence of the great cities Alexandria and Rome on the development of love poetry, to courtly love in Heian Japan and twelfth-century France, to love in modern novels such as Madame Bovary and Ulysses. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, Original Sin to artificial intelligence."--BOOK JACKET.

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.

In 1951 Octavio Paz travelled to India to serve as an attache in the Mexican Embassy. As in all of his essays, he brings poetic insight and voluminous knowledge to bear on the subject, and the result is a series of fascinating discourses on India's landscape, culture and history.

This work serves as the culmination of the Nobel Prize-winning author's literary journey, reflecting on themes of identity, culture, and the human experience. It delves into the complexities of solitude and connection, offering profound insights into the human condition. Through rich prose and evocative storytelling, the author weaves together personal and collective narratives, leaving a lasting impact on readers and enriching the literary landscape.

Octavio Paz (1914-1998) ofrece en La estación violenta una obra que pertenece a una de las mejores etapas creativas. Este libro recoge los " Himno entre ruinas", "Máscaras del alba", "Fuente", "Repaso nocturno", "Mutra", "¿No hay salida?", "El río", "El cántaro roto", y "Piedra de sol".

In seven elegant essays that range across centuries and literatures, Paz offers his thoughts on how modern poetry came to be, what makes it "modern," and what it may become. Translated by Helen Lane.