*Casa Mexicana is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to BESTSELLERS in EDUCATION Shop All Education Books It was in 1990 that Paz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for "impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity." Paz died of cancer in 1998.ĭimensiones del paquete: 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches In 1977, Paz was awarded the prestigious Jerusalem Prize for literature and in 1982 he was awarded the Neustadt Prize. From 1970 to 1974 Paz lectured at Harvard University, where he was made an honorary doctor in 1980.
In 1945 Paz became a Mexican diplomat and moved to Paris, where he would write his masterpiece The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950), a collection of nine essays regarding the Mexican identity. In 1943 Paz received a Guggenheim Fellowship and he moved to the United States in order to study at the University of California, where he stayed for two years.
His family was forced into exile, which they served in the United States, after the assassination of Mexican president Zapata, in 1919. Written in a lucid, rich prose, The Labyrinth of Solitude is Paz's poetic masterpiece." -Commonweal Biografía del autor The Nobel Prize-winning OCTAVIO PAZ was born in 1914, near Mexico City. His evocation of Mexican character and culture is, in fact, devoted to the real world, and it produces an astonishing image of a whole nation, truer than the profound truth it reveals for presenting them in a mythos made entirely beautiful. Identificador de producto del fabricante: 9780802150424ĭetalles: Reseña del editor Examines Mexican character and culture, pre-Columbian societies, and relations between Mexico and the United States Críticas Praise for The Labyrinth of Solitude: "The Labyrinth of Solitude is essential to an understanding of and, by extension, Latin America and the third world." -The Village Voice "The most celebrated volume by Mexico's greatest man of letters." -The Boston Globe "Octavio Paz is an even better essayist than he is a poet.
Autor: Paz, Octavio (Mexican Author Nobel Prize Winner)
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