Octavio Paz: 15 books

Now in paperback, the definitive, life-spanning, bilingual edition of the poems by the Nobel Prize laureate The Poems of Octavio Paz is the first retrospective collection of Paz’s poetry to span his entire writing career from his first published poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent...

Nobel Prize–winner Octavio Paz offers a dazzling mind journey to the sources of poetry. Poet, diplomat, writer, philosopher, hailed as an “intellectual literary one-man band” by the New York Times Book Review, Nobel Prize–winner Octavio Paz was a key figure in the Latin American Literary Renaissance...

Octavio Paz has long been known for his brilliant essays as well as for his poetry. Through the essays, he has sought to confront the tensions inherent in the conflict between art and society and to achieve a unity of their polarities. The Siren and the Seashell is a collection of Paz’s essays, focusing...

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: “There are few studies so good on any artist . . . Deft and dense with intelligence and . . . exciting to read” (The New Republic).   Octavio Paz claims in this essential work that the two painters who had the greatest influence on the twentieth...

A collection of essays from the Nobel Prize–winning author. “Brilliant . . . A stimulating book, electric in its energies, the shock of its thought” (The Boston Globe**).**   In its front-page review of Alternating Current, The New York Times Book Review called Octavio Paz “an intellectual...

Critical essays by the Nobel Prize winner on writers from Solzhenitsyn to Sartre.   Poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide...

In The Bow and the Lyre Octavio Paz, one of the most important poets writing in Spanish, presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives. It is written in the same prose style that distinguishes The Labyrinth of Solitude. The...

Il modo migliore per celebrare uno scrittore è leggere le sue opere. E per festeggiare il centenario di uno dei più autorevoli intellettuali di tutti i tempi, il Premio Nobel messicano Octavio Paz, arriva ora questo prezioso libro autobiografico. Costruito dal curatore Julio Hubard sulla base di...

A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in print The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a transliteration...

The only play by Latin America's foremost living poet and the Mexican Nobel laureate. Based on a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. When Giovanni comes to stay in a room overlooking the strange overgrown garden of Dr Rappaccini, he has eyes only for his host's beautiful daughter. But many...

«En 1957», escribe Octavio Paz, «hice algunas traducciones de breves textos de clásicos chinos. El formidable obstáculo de la lengua no me detuvo y, sin respeto por la filología, traduje del inglés y del francés. Me pareció que esos textos debían traducirse al español no sólo por su belleza...

A medio siglo de su incorporación como miembro de El Colegio Nacional, se reproduce en este volumen la lección inaugural que Octavio Paz, premio Nobel de Literatura 1990, ofreció en la ceremonia de ingreso celebrada el 1 de agosto de 1967, donde habló de la función de la poesía y la analogía en la era de la técnica y en la modernidad.

Fascinated by the polarity of being, Paz has boldly attempted to write a "history of man". Unlike countless other histories that simply chronicle civilizations and cultures, Paz's work explores the human heart, the meaning of human nature, and the duality that exists within all beings.

Dos poemas aéreos y resplandecientes de un gran escritor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two airy, resplendent poems by a famous writer.