Author Description

Review “Brilliant... A stimulating book, electric in its energies, the shock of its thought.”—Boston Globe“Reads like a poet’s prose: quick, flashing, and idiosyncratic.... [His essays] do not close discussions so much as open them.”—The New Yorker“Paz is by vocation a believer in alternatives, in new ways in which tradition and change can nourish each other. In his special detachment, he can afford to regard the past with love, the future without panic.” —Time"With the translation of Alternating Current, readers... can make the acquaintance of a man of electrical passions, paradoxical visions, alternating currents of thoughts, and feeling that runs hot but never cold”—Christian Science Monitor Product Description Octavio Paz on literature and art, drugs, the murder of God, and ethical and political problems. About the Author Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was born in Mexico City. He wrote many volumes of poetry, as well as a prolific body of remarkable works of nonction on subjects as varied as poetics, literary and art criticism, politics, culture, and Mexican history. He was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 1977, the Cervantes Prize in 1981, and the Neustadt Prize in 1982. He received the German Peace Prize for his political work, and finally, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.