Alternating Current - Softcover

Paz, Octavio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559701366 ISBN 13: 9781559701365

Publisher: Arcade Publishing, 1991

Synopsis

In an incisive volume of essays, the Nobel laureate reflects on the author's credo as an artist and poet, the sixties drug culture, modern atheism, politics, and ethics. Reprint.

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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"

"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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1559701366
• ISBN 13: 9781559701365
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226