Alternating Current - Softcover

Paz, Octavio

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ISBN 10: 1559701366 ISBN 13: 9781559701365

Publisher: Arcade Publishing, 2007

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A key figure in the Latin American literary renaissance, Octavio Paz focuses here on literature and art, drugs, the murder of God and ethical and political problems. In the first part of this acclaimed work, Octavio Paz sets forth his credo as an artist and a poet. Part two deals with themes more specific to the late sixties and seventies, such as the drug experience and modern atheism. In part three, Paz concerns himself with politics and ethics. In no way diminished by time, every chapter in this book is an adventure of the mind.

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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.

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