Name: On Poets and Others
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Author: Schmidt, Michael ; Paz, Octavio
ISBN: 9781628723748

Type

Physical Book

Author

Octavio Paz

Translated by

Michael Schmidt

Publisher

Arcade Publishing

Language

Inglés

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 13.7 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9781628723748

Synopsis "On Poets and Others"

The Nobel Prize-winning poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide range of poets and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams; from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Luis Buñuel to Alexander Solzhenitsyn; and from Charles Baudelaire to Jean-Paul Sartre, André Breton, and Henri Michaux. Paz writes, "I believe that a writer's attitude to language should be that of a lover: fidelity and, at the same time, a lack of respect for the beloved object. Veneration and transgression." When this original thinker meets these writers, each essay is an adventure of the mind.

Octavio Paz

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Octavio Irineo Paz Lozano (Ciudad de México, 31 de marzo de 1914-ibidem, 19 de abril de 1998), registrado al nacer como Octavio Irineo Paz Lozano, fue un poeta, ensayista y diplomático mexicano. Obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1990 y el Premio Cervantes en 1981. Se le considera uno de los más influyentes autores del siglo XX y uno de los más grandes poetas de todos los tiempos.

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