Sor Juana (Magill’s Literary Annual 1989)
At a glance:
- Author: Octavio Paz
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Historical and literary biography
- Time of Work: The seventeenth century
- Setting: Mexico (New Spain)
- Principal Characters: Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz (Juana Ramírez), Leonor Carreto, Marquesa De Mancera, Maria Luisa Manrique De Lara Y Gonzaga, Contesa De Paredes De Nava, Antonio Núñez De Miranda, Manuel Fernández De Santa Cruz, Aguiar Y Seijas
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Religion, Poetry or poets, Novelists, Seventeenth century, Catholics or Catholic Church, Mexico or Mexicans, Drama or dramatists, Convents or nunneries, Plague, Nuns, Plays or playwrights
- Locales: Mexico
Octavio Paz, a distinguished Mexican poet, social commentator, literary critic, and diplomat, has written more than forty volumes of poetry and prose. Any new work by Paz would merit attention solely on the basis of his literary distinction. His biography of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648?-1695), however, is destined to figure as literary history. This biography is noteworthy because of the sensitivity with which Paz addresses the tragic dilemma of a female poet who wrote in an age hostile to intellectual activity on the part of women. Further, Paz connects the story of Sor Juana with...
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