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Synopsis
Octavio Paz on literature and art, drugs, the murder of God, and ethical and political problems.
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Review
Brilliant . . . A stimulating book, electric in its energies, the shock of its thought.” Boston Globe
Reads like a poet’s prose: quick, flashing, and idiosyncratic. . . . [His essays] do not close discussions so much as open them.” The New Yorker
Paz is by vocation a believer in alternatives, in new ways in which tradition and change can nourish each other. In his special detachment, he can afford to regard the past with love, the future without panic.” Time
"With the translation of Alternating Current, readers . . . can make the acquaintance of a man of electrical passions, paradoxical visions, alternating currents of thoughts, and feeling that runs hot but never cold” Christian Science Monitor
About the Author
Octavio Paz was born in 1914 in Mexico City. A poet, writer, thinker, and diplomat, he was the author of many volumes of poetry as well as literary and art criticism and works on politics, culture, and Mexican history. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, he was also awarded the Jerusalem Prize, the Cervantes Prize, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the German Peace Prize. He died in 1998.
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Alternating Current
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Black Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine DJ. First American Edition. 215 Pp. First English Language Edition Stated. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket Priced $7.95. Seller Inventory # 018481
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Fine. 2nd Ed. (2d ptg.) Sturdy book, quality black cloth with red and gold design at front left, spine and back right, dark blue color inside covers and adjacent end papers, 215 pages. DJ beneath mylar, glossy white lightly browned overall, fascinating red and yellow frantic design on most of front, photo of Paz at top back. DJ has micronick at spine bottom left edge. Near Very Fine DJ/Very Fine book. Seller Inventory # 05047
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first American edition. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($7.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Jacket has a 2-inch closed tear on the front cover (as pictured) and ink notes on the rear flap. Translated from the Spanish by Helen R. Lane. Fiction-P. Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-2106
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine (pc). First American Edition. | Fine in price-clipped dustjacket with tiny closed edgetear bottom rear edge, else fine. A fresh, attractive copy. Trans. by Helen Lane. Seller Inventory # 007961
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Alternating Current (Review Copy)
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First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. Translated by Helen R. Lane. A collection of essays. A review copy with a photograph of Paz with publication information laid in. A very near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a tear to the top of the front panel. Seller Inventory # 107361