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Octavio Paz

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Biography

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...
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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...
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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...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Octavio Paz Information
3,166 words, approx. 11 pages
Octavio Paz Octavio Paz.gif}} | Born March 31 1914 ( 1914-03-31 ) Mexico City , D.F. , Mexico Died April 19 1998 (age 84) Mexico City , D.F. , Mexico Occupation Writer, Poet, and Diplomat. Nationality Mexican Writing period 1931 - 1965 Literary...


News and Journals
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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...


Criticism and Essays
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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