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El Laberinto De La Soledad by Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz
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Paperback. This is an annotated edition of El laberinto de la soledad, a classic text on Mexican culture and identity, first published in 1950 by Nobel prize winner Octavio Paz. It includes a wide-ranging introduction, hundreds of explanatory notes and four appendices. Editor(s): Stanton, Anthony. Series: Hispanic Texts. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADSL; DNF; HBJK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 290.
If one had to identify one central, defining text from modern Mexican culture, it would be Octavio Paz's famous essay, El laberinto de la soledad. This fully annotated edition includes the complete text in Spanish (with the author's final revisions), and notes and additional material in English. The editor's introduction contextualizes the essay and discusses central features: autobiographical and textual origins, intellectual sources, reception and canonization, generic ambiguity, structure, and governing symbols. The intellectual sources identified range from Marx, Nietzsche and Freud to the more contemporary ones of the French College of Sociology (Caillois), the Surrealist movement, the ideas of ... Read more
If one had to identify one central, defining text from modern Mexican culture, it would be Octavio Paz's famous essay, El laberinto de la soledad. This fully annotated edition includes the complete text in Spanish (with the author's final revisions), and notes and additional material in English. The editor's introduction contextualizes the essay and discusses central features: autobiographical and textual origins, intellectual sources, reception and canonization, generic ambiguity, structure, and governing symbols. The intellectual sources identified range from Marx, Nietzsche and Freud to the more contemporary ones of the French College of Sociology (Caillois), the Surrealist movement, the ideas of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Hispanic Texts
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719048746
SKU
V9780719048746
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About Octavio Paz
Anthony Stanton teaches and researches on the modern literature of Mexico and Latin America at the Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City -- .
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