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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