Paz, Octavio
Paz, Octavio ( 1914 – 98 ),poet, who was born and died in Mexico City. He made his name interrogating Mexican identity and history in El laberinto de la soledad ( 1950 ; The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico, 1961 ). Águila o sol? ( 1951 ; Eagle or Sun?, 1970 ) and Piedra de sol ( 1957 ; Sun Stone, 1962 ) explore Mexican motifs guided by a fascination with how the mind perceives through language and how poetry and eroticism defeat history, collected in Poemas (1935–1975) ( 1979 ; The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957–1987, 1987 ). His best works are his journey-meditation El mono gramático ( 1974 ; The Monkey Grammarian) and his biography of the Mexican nun Sor Juana o las trampas de la fe ( 1986 ; Sor Juana: or, The Traps of Faith, 1988 ). Paz was a political commentator, an art critic, a translator, and editor of...
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