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| Name: |
Octavio Paz | | Birth Date: |
March 31, 1914 | | Death Date: |
April 19, 1998 | | Place of Birth: |
Mexico City, Mexico | | Place of Death: |
Mexico City, Mexico | | Nationality: |
Mexican | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer, diplomat, playwright, essayist |
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 Biography of Octavio Paz
1,086 words, approx. 4 pages
 The Mexican diplomat, playwright, and essayist, Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was internationally regarded as one of the principal poets of the twentieth century. His work was formally recognized in 1990 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, the... summary from source:
 Biography of Octavio Paz
10,224 words, approx. 34 pages
 "Desde mi adolescencia he escrito poemas y no he cesado de escribirlos. Quise ser poeta y nada más. En mis libros de prosa me propuse servir a la poesía, justificarla y defenderla, explicarla ante los otros y ante mí mismo. Pronto... summary from source:
 Biography of Octavio Paz
3,619 words, approx. 12 pages
Nobel laureate Octavio Paz was a Mexican author who enjoyed a worldwide reputation as a master poet and essayist. Although Mexico figures prominently in Paz's work--one of his best-known books, The Labyrinth of Solitude, for example, is a comprehensive... 
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 Octavio Paz Quotes
1,433 words, approx. 5 pages
Octavio Paz ( 31 March 1914 - 19 April 1998 ) was born Octavio Paz Lozano in Mexico City in the middle of the Mexican Revolution. He was a poet, writer, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the first Mexican writer...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Octavio Paz Information
3,166 words, approx. 11 pages
Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in...
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 New Criterion Octavio Paz.(Review)
02/01/2001: 2,307 words, approx. 8 pages Octavio Paz Itinerary: An Intellectual Journey, translated by Jason Wilson. Harcourt Brace, 128 pages, $22 How would the reading public react if a beloved, widely read American author--a poetic commentator on art, love, and history, with a world reputation and a Nobel... summary from source:
World Literature Today Remembering Octavio Paz.
01/01/1999: 2,603 words, approx. 9 pages Mexican writer Octavio Paz was a celebrated author, translator and literary critic who wrote fiction, poetry, and philosophy. He resigned his position as Mexico's ambassador to India in 1968, after the Mexican government massacred hundreds of students protesting for a more democratic political system.... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Bola\'96o Returns, With Youth, Decay, Revolution
4/1/2007: 752 words, approx. 3 pages"God bless them, they were so young, with their hair down to their shoulders and carrying all those books.” This wistful observation comes from an aging, drunken, failed poet in The Savage Detectives, the grand novel that made Roberto Bolaño famous in Latin America when...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Julia A. Kushigian
13,063 words, approx. 44 pages
In the following essay, Kushigian explores ways in which Paz uses language, imagery, and subject matter to depict his philosophy of the mutuality and intersection of Eastern and Western culture and philosophy.
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Critical Essay by Jason Wilson
11,291 words, approx. 38 pages
In the following essay, Wilson offers a biographical and critical overview of Paz and his works, focusing mainly on the phase of his career from 1931 through the early 1940s.
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Critical Essay by Dean Rader
9,371 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following essay, Rader offers a comparison of the works of Paz with those of American poet Wallace Stevens.
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