Itinerary (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Octavio Paz
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Autobiography, history, and memoirs
- Time of Work: 1917-1993
- Setting: Mexico, the United States, Spain, India, and France
- Principal Characters: André Breton, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Pablo Neruda, Leon Trotsky, Lázaro Cárdenas
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir, History
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, United States or Americans, France or French people, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, 1940’s, Poetry or poets, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, 1980’s, India or East Indian people, Mexico or Mexicans, 1990’s, Spain or Spanish people
- Locales: France, United States, Mexico, Spain, India
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990, Mexican writer Octavio Paz served in the Mexican diplomatic corps in a variety of positions for seventeen years, including six years as ambassador to India. He was author of seventeen books, many of which were poetry. A man deeply committed to personal and political integrity, Paz struggled with the inherent flaws of Marxism, Communism, and capitalism. Among his better-known works is El laberinto de la soledad: Vida y pensamiento de México (1950, revised and enlarged, 1959; The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in...
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