His sequence of prose poems, Aguila o sol? Eagle or Sun? This long poem, and Paz's sociocultural analysis of Mexico, El laberinto de la soledad The Labyrinth of Solitude, , established him as a major literary figure in the s. In , Paz became Mexico's ambassador to India and resigned six years later in protest when government forces massacred student demonstrators in Mexico City.
His later work shows an ever-deepening intelligence and complexity as it investigates the intersection of philosophy, religion, art, politics, and the role of the individual.
His various collections of essays engage culture, linguistics, literary theory, history, and politics with a level of originality and erudition that is unrivaled; these and his poems form a breadth of work that expresses, in the words of Carlos Fuentes, "the existence of a plurality of possibilities for harmony and truth, outside the limited range of our inherited dogmas. Paz died in Luna Silvestre Baja tu clara sombra y otros poemas Entre la piedra y flor Aguila o sol?
El laberinto de la soledad Corrientae alterna Posdata Tiempo nublado La otra voz Between and he served as the Mexican ambassador to India.
He resigned in as a protest against the massacre of student demonstrators by the Mexican government. The Eastern vision of a non-dualistic, non-Cartesian universe is central to Paz's work. For the Hindu, as he told Rita Guibert in an interview, the real is outside time and history.
So is it in his poetry, too. Eastern philosophy, like surrealism, probably did not so much influence Paz as provide correspondences or parallels to central ambitions in his poetry. It is Mexico which seems to be the great abiding fact in his work. In a sense, Paz's poetry begins with the recognition that isolation and solitude are inevitable for everyone, and that they are especially characteristic of Mexican life.
The individual is divided not only from the world but also from his or her true self. Solitude can be transcended both in the creation of poems and in the re-creation which occurs whenever they are understood.
The function of the poem then is essentially ritualistic. It exorcises the anxieties and fears that rise from the inevitable alienation of modern life and, through rhythmic configuration and image, initiates the reader into an awareness beyond time. In part the poem derives its power from eros as in the world of medieval troubadours for whom transfiguration was possible through love and sexuality.
In addition to his poetry, Paz was a major critic of his country's social and political life. Paris, Seghers, Chantikian, Kosrof Ed. Homage to the Poet. San Francisco, Kosmos, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos. Homenaje a Octavio Paz. Fein, John M. Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky, Flores, Angel Ed. Aproximaciones a Octavio Paz. Gimferrer, Pere. Lecturas de Octavio Paz. Barcelona, Anagrama, Gimferrer, Pere Ed. Madrid , Taurus, Gradiva , 6 — 7, febrero Ivask, Ivar Ed. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, Lemaitre, Monique.
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