His literary work includes more than 20 poems, almost 30 essay books, five translations and his Complete Works. In 1945 he began his career in the Mexican Foreign Service, which lasted 23 years and took him to destinations such as France, Japan and India. In 1990 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
WHO IS OCTAVIO PAZ?
(Mexico City, 1914 - id., 1998) Mexican writer. Together with Pablo Neruda and César Vallejo, Octavio Paz makes up the triad of great poets who, after the decline of modernism, led the renewal of 20th-century Spanish-American poetry. The 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature, the first awarded to a Mexican author, also meant recognition of his immense and influential intellectual stature, which was reflected in a brilliant essay production.
In 1990, Octavio Paz became the first Mexican to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature "For his passionate and far-reaching writing, characterized by sensory intelligence and humanistic integrity" - according to the Swedish Academy.
Sunstone Shard
"To love is to fight, if two kiss
the world changes, desires embody,
thought incarnates, sprout wings
on the slave's back, the world
is real and tangible, wine is wine,
bread tastes again, water is water,
To love is to fight, it is to open doors,
stop ghosting with a number
sentenced to life imprisonment
by a faceless master;
the world changes
if two look at each other and recognize each other"
UNMISSSIBLE TEXTS BY OCTAVIO PAZ
The Labyrinth of Solitude is a 1950 essay by the Mexican poet. One of his most famous works consists of nine parts: "El Pachuco and other extremes", "Mexican masks", "The Day of the Dead", "The Children of La Malinche", "The Conquest and Colonialism", "De the Independence to the Revolution ”,“ The Mexican Intelligence ”,“ The Actuality ”and“ The Dialectic of Solitude ”.
La llama doble, Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism and love, themes that have been a constant in his writing, from his first published poems to the great works of his maturity. Starting from Plato's Symposium, he gives a brief history of love and eroticism in literature throughout the centuries: from the influence of the great cities Alexandria and Rome in the development of love poetry, to courtly love in the Heian Japan and 12th century France, to love in modern novels like Madame Bovary and Ulysses.
The best of Octavio Paz. El fuego de cada día, Octavio Paz collected in 1989 a wide and significant selection of his poetic work in verse, the most complete and faithful anthology to the wishes of its author that can be found. This volume, which includes a prologue and the author's notes, also contains the speech and toast given on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, valuable testimony to the poetic experience of one of the essential figures of letters. hispanic Poet in search of modernity, rigorous heir to the literary tradition, eternal polemicist, philosopher and anthropologist, adventurous and curious reader of science, romantic and avant-garde, in the poetry of Octavio Paz converge erudition and the earthly, thought and passion.
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