Presenting an introduction to the life and work of Nobel Prize-winning Mexican poet and activist Octavio Paz, this book examines his outstanding intellectual adventures, as well as his private life…

Octavio Paz is such a masterly presence in the dialogue of Latin American culture that it is easy to forget he is first and foremost a poet… in the polyphony…

Winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature and past recipient of the Jerusalem Prize, the Frankfurt Peace Prize, and the Neustadt Prize, Octavio Paz has written one of the…

This book analyzes the relationship that Mexican poet Octavio Paz had with Heidegger’s ontology and French surrealism, as well as his contact with Hindu philosophy, both of which were instrumental…

A Study Guide for Octavio Paz’s Fable, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Literature of Developing Nations for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…

This work analyzes Paz’s political thought, arguing that it is rooted in two separate and often antagonistic traditions, Liberalism and Romanticism. This work also provides a discussion of the political…

Nobel laureate Octavio Paz’s premier long poem Sunstone/Piedra de Sol is here presented as a separate volume, with beautiful illustrations from an eighteenth-century treatise on the Mexican calendar.

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…