Dec 27, 2009
If Octavio Paz excels at poetry, he is no less respected for his writings in a multitude of other humanistic disciplines. Perhaps his best-known prose work is El laberinto de la soledad: Vida y pensamiento de México (1950, rev. and enlarged ed., 1959; The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico, 1961), which is a discussion of Mexican culture and the Mexican psyche. El arco y la lira (1956; The Bow and the Lyre, 1973) is an outstanding study in the field of poetics. His literary criticism includes Los hijos del...
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