Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz (1914 -1998) oli meksikolainen runoilija, esseisti ja diplomaatti. Hänelle myönnettiin Nobelin kirjallisuuspalkinto vuonna 1990.Pazin varhaistuotanto sai vaikutteita sekä marxismista, surrealismista että eksistentialismista. Siinä on myös yhtymäkohtia itämaiseen uskonnolliseen ajatteluun, etenkin buddhalaisuuteen ja hinduismiin. Myöhemmässä tuotannossa läpikäyväksi teemaksi nousi eksistentialistista yksinäisyyttä vastaan taisteleminen eroottisen rakkauden ja taiteellisen luovuuden avulla. Salamanteri ilmestyi vuonna 1962. Siinä Paz vaikuttaa pyrkivän silmin havaittavan todellisuuden tuolle puolen, mutta samalla hän mielii vangita ohimenevän todellisuuden. Kokoelmassa Pazille tyypillinen symbolinen ja surrealistinen kuvasto yhdistyy proosamaisen selkeään runokieleen.Teoksen on suomentanut runoilija Markus Jääskeläinen, joka on aiemmin suomentanut muun muassa T.S. Eliotin Joutomaan.

Una antolog a definitiva para adentrarse en el universo literario del mayor poeta mexicano contempor neo: el premio Nobel de Literatura Octavio Paz. Nueva edici n conmemorativa de RAE y ASALE. La vida de Octavio Paz corre en paralelo a la historia pol tica y cultural del siglo XX. Su actividad literaria, diplom tica y art stica; su conocimiento de otras realidades externas a su pa s, y la relaci n con sus contempor neos lo convierten en una figura esencial de la cultura en espa ol. Esta antolog a propone un original itinerario cronol gico por los escritos de Paz que entrelaza la prosa con la poes a, las cartas con los ensayos y otros escritos, hasta conformar una biograf a vital y literaria del poeta a trav s de su obra. El libro se completa con estudios de especialistas y de escritores, coet neos del poeta y pertenecientes a generaciones posteriores, que ofrecen una visi n amplia y rica de la creaci n del premio Nobel mexicano. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The definitive anthology for immersing oneself in the literary universe of Mexico's greatest modern poet: winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature winner Octavio Paz. New commemorative edition by RAE and ASALE. Octavio Paz's life ran parallel to the political and cultural history of the twentieth century. His literary, diplomatic and artistic activity, his understanding of realities outside Mexico, and his relationships with his contemporaries make him an essential figure in Spanish-language culture. This anthology plots an original, chronological journey through his canon, blending poetry and prose, letters, essays and other writings that add up to create a dynamic and literary biography of the poet through his work. Included are commentaries by experts on Paz's work as well as pieces by his peers and later writers, offering a rich overview of the legacy of Mexico's Nobel Prize-winning poet.

The Poems of Octavio Paz is the first retrospective collection of Paz's poetry to span his entire writing career from his first published poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent last poem. This landmark bilingual edition contains many poems that have never been translated into English before, plus new translations based on Paz's final revisions. Assiduously edited by Eliot Weinberger--who has been translating Paz for over forty years--The Poems of Octavio Paz also includes translations by the poet-luminaries Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Blackburn, Denise Levertov, Muriel Rukeyser, and Charles Tomlinson. Readers will also find Weinberger's capsule biography of Paz, as well as notes on many poems in Paz's own words, taken from various interviews he gave throughout his long and singular life.

The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth’s loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, “Eliot Weinberger’s commentary on the successive translations of Wang Wei’s little poem illustrates, with succinct clarity, not only the evolution of the art of translation in the modern period but at the same time the changes in poetic sensibility.”

In 1990, the Swedish Academy awarded Octavio Paz the Nobel Prize in Literature for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity. Paz is a writer for the entire world to celebrate (Chicago Tribune), the poet-archer who goes straight to the heart and mind, where the center of being is one (Nadine Gordimer), the living conscience of his age (Mario Vargas Llosa), a poet-prophet, a genius (Harold Bloom). Here at last is the first retrospective collection of Paz 's poetry to span his entire writing career, from the first published poem, at age seventeen, to his magnificent last poem; the whole is assiduously edited and translated by acclaimed essayist Eliot Weinberger who has been translating Paz for over forty years with additional translations by several poet-luminaries. This edition includes many poems that have never been translated into English before, new translations based on Paz 's final revisions, and a brilliant capsule biography of Paz by Weinberger, as well as notes on the poems in Paz 's own words, taken from various interviews he gave throughout his life.

El Laberinto de la Soledad, escrito por Octavio Paz y publicado bajo el ISBN 9786074537987 por S lector, S.A. de C.V., es una obra fundamental en la literatura mexicana y un profundo ensayo sobre la identidad y la cultura mexicana. En este libro, Octavio Paz, uno de los intelectuales m s influyentes de M xico y premio Nobel de Literatura, explora la complejidad del car cter mexicano a trav s de un an lisis de su historia, costumbres, y psicolog a social. Dividido en varios ensayos, El Laberinto de la Soledad examina c mo los mexicanos han desarrollado una identidad nica que est profundamente marcada por su historia colonial, la Revoluci n Mexicana, y la influencia de la cultura espa ola, ind gena y mestiza. Paz reflexiona sobre conceptos como la soledad, el machismo, la muerte, y el sentimiento de inferioridad que, seg n l, permean la cultura mexicana y afectan la manera en que los mexicanos se ven a s mismos y a su lugar en el mundo. El libro es conocido por su estilo l rico y filos fico, y por su capacidad para combinar an lisis sociol gico con poes a y reflexi n personal. Es una obra que no solo busca entender al mexicano, sino tambi n invitar al lector a cuestionar y reflexionar sobre su propia identidad y cultura. El Laberinto de la Soledad es ampliamente considerado como una obra esencial para comprender la psicolog a colectiva de M xico y es una lectura indispensable para cualquiera interesado en la historia, la cultura y la identidad mexicana. Este libro no solo ofrece un retrato ntimo y cr tico del ser mexicano, sino que tambi n plantea preguntas universales sobre la soledad, la identidad y la condici n humana. Es una obra que sigue siendo relevante en la actualidad y que ha influido en generaciones de lectores y pensadores tanto dentro como fuera de M xico.

Aun cuando la redacci n material del libro se produjo entre marzo y abril de 1993, el prop sito de escribirlo data por lo menos de 1965, y en aquella poca el autor redact los primeros apuntes de lo que deseaba que, partiendo de la conexi n ntima entre los tres dominios --el sexo, el erotismo y el amor--, fuese una exploraci n del sentimiento amoroso . Resumiendo toda su trayectoria de vida, pensamiento y escritura, con una tensi n expresiva inabatible y una l cida y conmovida cercan a al n cleo m s ntimo y esencial de la existencia humana, Octavio Paz examina, compendia, hace revivir y otorga pleno sentido, desde sus or genes en la memoria hist rica y m tica hasta la experiencia cotidiana m s inmediata, a uno de los elementos fundamentales de la vida de hombres y mujeres: El fuego original y primordial, la sexualidad, levanta la llama roja del erotismo y sta, a su vez, sostiene y alza otra llama, azul y tr mula: la del amor. Erotismo y amor: la llama doble de la vida . El fuego original y primordial, la sexualidad, levanta la llama roja del erotismo y sta, a su vez, sostiene y alza otra llama, azul y tr mula: la del amor. Erotismo y amor: la llama doble de la vida .

Nobel Prize-winner Octavio Paz offers a dazzling mind journey to the sources of poetry. Poet, diplomat, writer, philosopher, hailed as an "intellectual literary one-man band" by the New York Times Book Review, Nobel Prize-winner Octavio Paz was a key figure in the Latin American Literary Renaissance and in world literature. In this entrancing work, part prose-poem and part rumination on the origins of language and the antic, erotic, sacred nature of poetry, Paz takes inspiration from Hanuman, the red-faced monkey chief and ninth grammarian of Hindu mythology. On a journey to the temple city of Galta in India--which Paz finds partially ruined in a leaf-filled countryside surrounded by forbidding hills--Hanuman's mythical encounters serve as the springboard for the poet's speculations on all manners of things, from movement and fixity to meaning and identity, the reality behind language, and the nature of nature. Images of the holy city, complete with the marauding monkeys for which it is known, constantly obtrude on his musings. Perhaps the most poetic of Paz's prose works, The Monkey Grammarian is visual: every page is rich in images, of palaces and temples, pilgrims and sadhus, and the monkey god himself. Paz's probing, crystalline prose makes this an unforgettable voyage of the mind.

El laberinto de la soledad contiene nueve ensayos que constituyen una profunda reflexi n de su autor sobre la naturaleza y constituci n del mexicano actual, concebido por Paz como el producto de un largo proceso de mestizaje, que le otorgan condiciones psicol gicas, morales, culturales e hist ricas particulares. As , analizando el sujeto en micro, Paz trata de abordar el macro del pueblo mexicano, como sujeto hist rico colectivo, con el nico objetivo de poder concebir una identidad nacional.

In Conjunctions and Disjunctions, Octavio Paz offers what he calls his "rough draft" for a history of man, which is a history of human nature rather than of men or of cultures and civilizations. For Paz, this history is grounded in the polarity of being and the flux and balance of life. It can be read in the dualities by which we live, the pairs of contrasting concepts or signs by which all cultures organize themselves--body and soul or mind, life and death, eros and thanatos, the sex organs and the face. His book is an exploration of those dualities over time and across traditions, brought together with provocative erudition and a poet's scintillating insight. Ranging through Eastern and Western religions, ancient and contemporary civilizations, and subjects as diverse as history, politics, science, and literature, Paz cites saints, philosophers, anthropologists, and psychoanalysts as he teases out the correspondences and contrasts that comprise this history. The final section of his book seeks to assess not only what this world of contrasting signs represents, but where it is headed--what energies in man will help ensure our future.

In its front-page review of Alternating Current, The New York Times Book Review called Octavio Paz "an intellectual literary one-man band" for his ability to write incisively and with dazzling originality about a wide range of subjects. This collection of his essays is divided into three parts. Part 1 sets forth his credo as an artist and poet, steeped in his knowledge of world literature and Mexican art and history and buttressed by readings of writers from Mexican poet Luis Cernuda to D. H. Lawrence, Malcolm Lowry, Andre Breton, and Carlos Fuentes. Part 2 deals with themes such as Western individualism versus plurality and flux in Eastern philosophy, atheism versus belief, nihilism, liberated man, and versions of paradise. In Part 3, Paz writes of politics and ethics in essays on revolt and revolution, existentialism, Marxism, the third world, and the new face of Latin America. A scintillating thinker and a prescient voice on emerging world culture, Paz reveals himself here as "a man of electrical passions, paradoxical visions, alternating currents of thoughts, and feeling that runs hot but never cold" (Christian Science Monitor).

In 1951 Octavio Paz travelled to India to serve as an attaché in the Mexican Embassy. 'The Antipodes of Coming and Going' is a lyrical remembrance of Paz's days in India, evoking with astonishing clarity the sights, sounds, smells and denizens of the subcontinent.