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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998. Labyrinth of solitude: life and thought in Mexico. New York, Grove Press [1962, ©1961] (OCoLC)645687689 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Octavio Paz |
ISBN: | 0394172426 9780394172422 9780802150424 080215042X |
OCLC Number: | 332832 |
Notes: | Essays. |
Description: | 212 pages ; 21 cm |
Contents: | The Pachuco and other extremes -- Mexican masks -- The day of the dead -- The sons of La Malinche -- The conquest and colonialism -- From independence to the revolution -- The Mexican intelligentsia -- The present day -- The dialectic of solitude. |
Other Titles: | Laberinto de la soledad. |
Responsibility: | Translated by Lysander Kemp. |
Abstract:
"One of the major poets of our time here probes and defines Mexican character and culture in a series of essays. Silence, irony, the formalization of social life -- these are the masks that permit the Mexican to conceal his personality. Far more than an interpretation of his own country alone, this book is also a penetrating commentary on the plight of Latin America today as a whole, an enlightening view of the North American -- "who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens, and moral precepts"--And a universally applicable evaluation of the situation of contemporary man." [Back cover].
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