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1	Labyrinth of Solitude more books like this by Octavio Paz Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Compared to Ortega y Gasset's The Revolt of the Masses for its trenchant analysis, this collection contains his most ... see all copies from £5.78! new only from £9.93! \| signed copies
2	The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism more books like this by Octavio Paz In The Double Flame, Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love - themes that have been a constant in his writing, from his first published poems to the great works of his maturity. Beginning with Plato's Symposium, he gives a short history of love and eroticism in literature throughout the ages: ... see all copies from £6.36! new only from £7.61! \| first editions
3	In light of India more books like this by Octavio Paz This collection of essays recalls the author's days in India, first as an attache in the Mexican Embassy, then 11 years later as Mexico's ambassador. He brings insight into India's landscape, culture and history in a series of discourses. "The Antipodes of Coming and Going" is a remembrance of the sights, sounds and smells of the subcontinent. ... see all copies from £5.13! new only from £8.99! \| first editions
4	El Laberinto de La Soledad: Posdata, Vuelta Al Laberinto de La Soledad more books like this by Octavio Paz With sales well over a million copies, only in its Spanish edition, El Laberinto de la Soledad is beyond doubt a mandatory reading for the discussion of the cultural and emotional features that characterize Mexicans and their desire to find their hidden identity in the course of their turbulent history. see all copies from £7.42! new only from £7.42!
5	The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987 more books like this by Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger (Editor), Elizabeth Bishop (Translator) A massive bilingual volume representing the complete poems of Mexico's leading poet. It also includes a useful appendix of notes by Paz himself. The translations have been done by a variety of well-known poets and other writers, including Elizabeth Bishop, Mark Strand, Denise Levertov, John Frederick Nims, and Eliot Weinberger. see all copies from £11.08! new only from £16.06! \| first editions
6	Laberinto de La Soledad y Otras Obras, El more books like this by Octavio Paz In Paz's nonfiction examination of Mexico's history and mythology, he laments the loss of Mexican identity and sees that as due to the enormous number of influences that have affected the country, particularly its Indian and Spanish past and the all-pervasive presence of the United States. see all copies from £10.81! new only from £10.81!
7	The monkey grammarian more books like this by Octavio Paz Written while Paz was the Mexican ambassador to India, this dazzling mind-journey to the temple city of Galta becomes the occasion for the celebratel Mexican poet and philosopher to explore the eternally intriguing question: is language, the concept of grammar, God-given or did man invent it on his own with powers borrowed from the divine realm? see all copies from £9.01! new only from £9.20! \| first editions
8	Sor Juana: Or, the Traps of Faith more books like this by Octavio Paz, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) Mexico's leading poet, essayist, and cultural critic writes of a Mexican poet of another time and another world, the world of seventeenth-century New Spain. His subject is Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, the most striking figure in all of Spanish-American colonial literature and one of the great poets of her age. Her life reads like a novel. A ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £14.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico more books like this by Octavio Paz see all copies from £2.04! first editions
10	A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems more books like this by Octavio Paz These poems reflect personal moments in Paz's life which he revisits in memory--very much in the manner of Wordsworth's PRELUDE. see all copies from £6.58! new only from £9.15! \| first editions
11	Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries more books like this by Octavio Paz see all copies from £12.95! first editions
12	A Sor Juana Anthology more books like this by Juana, Octavio Paz, Juana Sor Juana (Translator) 'Sor Juana with her intricate conceits, torrents of imagery and baroque opulence... inspires and challenges Trueblood to transform the Spanish verse forms into contemporary equivalents. He triumphs.' - Robert Taylor, Boston Globe. see all copies from £3.77! new only from £15.42! \| first editions
13	Essays on Mexican Art more books like this by Octavio Paz, Helen Lane (Translator) In this collection of his extensive writings on art, Paz considers the work of artists as diverse as Rivera, Orozco, Tamayo, and Kahlo. see all copies from £6.21! new only from £13.86! \| first editions
14 view cover	The other voice : essays on modern poetry. more books like this by Octavio Paz The Other Voice is a collection of seven ess ays by Octavio Paz, the Nobel Prize-winning author from Mexi co, in which he explores the passion, the being, the meaning and the value of poetry. ' see all copies from £5.54! new only from £5.54! \| first editions
15 view cover	Eagle or Sun more books like this by Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger (Translator) The first major book of short prose poetry in Spanish, "Eagle or Sun?" exerted an enormous influence on modern Latin American writing. Written in 1949-50 by Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz, "Eagle or Sun?" has a mythopoeic "place" Mexico -- a country caught up in its pre-Columbian past, the world of modern imperialism, and an apocalyptic future ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £10.97! \| first editions
16 view cover	Alternating current more books like this by Octavio Paz A key figure in the Latin American literary renaissance, Octavio Paz A key figure in the Latin American literary renaisance, Octaio Paz focuses here on literature and art, durgs, the murder of God, and ethical and political problems. see all copies from £2.90! new only from £7.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	What the Night Tells the Day more books like this by Hector Bianciotti, Linda Coverdale (Translator), Octavio Paz (Introduction by) An autobiographical novel by Hector Bianciotti, chronicling his youth among the poor Italian immigrant peasants of rural Argentina and his gradual discovery of his homosexuality. see all copies from £4.85! new only from £6.27! \| first editions
18 view cover	Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem is Translated more books like this by Eliot Weinberger, Octavio Paz (Photographer) This title features nineteen different translations of a single poem with comments on each version by Eliot Weinberger and an introduction contributed by Octavio Paz. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £6.35! \| first editions
19 view cover	Selected Poems more books like this by Octavio Paz see all copies from £5.54! new only from £8.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Conjunctions and Disjunctions more books like this by Octavio Paz One of the great mind of the 20th century explores the duality of human nature in all its variations in cultures around the world. see all copies from £3.99! new only from £9.20! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	On poets and others more books like this by Octavio Paz The philosopher-man of letters brilliantly reflects on some 16 fellow poets and writers, including Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and William Carols Williams. see all copies from £3.14! new only from £9.01! \| first editions
22 view cover	Mexican Poetry: An Anthology more books like this by Octavio Paz The renowned Mexican poet and critic Octavio Paz assembled this important anthology--the first of its kind in English translation--with a keen sense of what is both representative and universal in Mexican poetry. His informative introduction places the thirty-five selected poets within a literary and historical context that spans four centuries ... see all copies from £5.51! new only from £10.57! \| first editions
23 view cover	Itinerary: An Intellectual Journey more books like this by Octavio Paz, Jason Wilson (Translator), Charles Tomlinson (Foreword by) The autobiographical essay "Itinerary," an exploration of Paz's engagement with the politics of Mexico, makes up the bulk of this volume. He traces his early hope for Communism through his break with the ideology during the Stalin years, drawing a vivid portrait of his intellectual development throughout. His essay "The Labyrinth of Solitude" and ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £9.80! \| first editions
24	Anthology of Mexican poetry more books like this by Octavio Paz see all copies from £5.54! first editions
25	Bow and the Lyre more books like this by Octavio Paz, Ruth L Simms (Translator) Paz explicates his own writing, from the process itself to his poetry's context in terms of Mexican history and society. see all copies from £9.67! signed copies \| first editions

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