Part II Paper SP12: Latin American Literature


Piedra del sol, in the Museo Nacional de Antropología
Piedra del sol, in the Museo Nacional de
Antropología, Mexico

Octavio Paz

The poetry of Octavio Paz can be studied under Section B (poetry), and the historical dimension of his thinking can be brought (comparatively) into the topic on Historical Fictions.

Contents

  • Lecture handout:
  • Extracts from poems discussed in Dr Kantaris's lecture
  • A lecture (for Part Ib SP5) on El laberinto de la soledad
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  • On-line resources
  • On-line essays by Paz (scroll down the page to entries under 'P')
  • Biography of Octavio Paz
  • Text of Paz's Nobel Lecture of 1990
  • Complete text of the poem 'Piedra de sol'
  • Article by Luis Pulido Ritter on Paz's use of Oriental imagery
  • Article by María Carmen Ruiz Cierva on 'La imagen intelectual de Octavio Paz'
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