The Labyrinth of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Paz, Octavio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141188472 ISBN 13: 9780141188478

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2005

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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.

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Octavio Paz was born in Mexico City in 1914 to a family of Spanish and native Mexican descent. He was the author of more than twenty-five books of poetry and prose. In addition to being a poet, essayist, playwright, social philosopher, and critic, he also served as a Mexican diplomat in France and Japan, and as ambassador to India. He was awarded the Cervantes Award in 1981, the Neustadt Prize in 1982, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. Octavio Paz died in 1998.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0141188472
• ISBN 13: 9780141188478
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
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