Dense, lyrical, digressive, perverse, and sometimes witty . . . The magician is as serious as he was in
The Labyrinth of Solitude. He may not persuade, but he dazzles.
The New York Times Delicious insights crop up with pleasurable frequency.
Newsday The descriptive brilliances succeed each other with dazzling rapidity, and Paz takes on the blurred vivacity of a hummingbird.
American Scholar"
"Dense, lyrical, digressive, perverse, and sometimes witty . . . The magician is as serious as he was in
The Labyrinth of Solitude. He may not persuade, but he dazzles."--
The New York Times "Delicious insights crop up with pleasurable frequency."--
Newsday "The descriptive brilliances succeed each other with dazzling rapidity, and Paz takes on the blurred vivacity of a hummingbird."--
American Scholar
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.