A media voz octavio paz biography

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    Octavio Paz
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    Clara Román-Odio, J. Sebastián Chavez Erazo, Cheryl A. Johnson
    • LAST REVIEWED: 21 March 2024
    • LAST MODIFIED: 21 March 2024
    • DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199766581-0211

    Introduction

    Octavio Paz (b. 1914–d. 1998) ranks among the most influential Latin American poets and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Fully engaged in the artistic experimentation and critical spirit of modernity, he wrote more than twenty books of poetry and as many book-length essays on such topics as eroticism, poetry, politics, history, anthropology, and visual arts. Paz examined world cultures from multiple frames of reference, including the movements of modernity and postmodernity, the tensions between poetry and history, the state of world politics, Eastern and Western thought, and Latin American struggles for independence and self-determination. The broad sweep of his worldview was shaped in part by experiences gained during decades of service with the Mexican diplomatic corps in Paris

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    Paz, Octavio (31 March 1914 - 19 April 1998)

    Jorge Aguilar Mora
    University of Maryland at College Park

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    Bibliographies

    Biographies

    References

    1990 Nobel Prize in Literature Presentation Speech

    Paz: Banquet Speech

    Press Release: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1990

    Paz: Nobel Lecture, 8 månad 1990

    This entry was revised from Aguilar Mora’s Paz entry in DLB 290: Modern Spanish American Poets, Second Series. See also the Paz entries in DLB Yearbook: 1990 and DLB Yearbook: 1998.

    BOOKS: Luna silvestre (Mexico City: Fábula, 1933);

    No pasarán (Mexico City: Simbad, 1936);

    Raíz del hombre (Mexico City: Simbad, 1937);

    Bajo tu clara sombra y otros poemas sobre España (Valencia: Ediciones Españolas, 1937);

    Entre la piedra y la flor (Mexico City: Nueva Voz, 1941);

    A la orilla del mundo y Primer día, Bajo tu clara sombra, Raíz del hombre, Noche de resurrecciones (Mexico City: ARS, 1942);

    Libertad bajo palabra (Mexico City: Tezontle, 19

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    Octavio Paz

    Octavio Paz was born in Mexico City on March 31, 1914, to a family of Spanish and native Mexican descent. He was educated at the National University of Mexico in law and literature. Under the encouragement of Pablo Neruda, Paz began his literary career in his teens bygd founding an avant-garde magazine, Barandal, and publishing his first book of poems, Luna silvestre [Sylvan Moon] (Fábula, 1933).

    During his youth, Paz spent time in the United States and Spain, where he was influenced by the Modernist and Surrealist movements. His sequence of prose poems, Aguila o sol? [Eagle or Sun?] (Tezontle, 1951) includes illustrations by Rufino Tamayo and is a visionary mapping of Mexico—its past, present, and future.

    Paz’s poetic work Piedra de Sol [Sun Stone] (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1957) borrows its structure from the Aztec calendar. This long poem, and Paz’s sociocultural analysis of Mexico, El laberinto de la soledad [The