Authors: Octavio Paz, Yara Milos (Translator), Lysander Kemp
ISBN-13: 9780802150424, ISBN-10: 080215042X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Date Published: January 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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 famous work, "The Labyrinth of Solitude," a beautifully written and deeply felt discourse on Mexico's quest for identity that gives us an unequalled look at the country hidden behind "the mask." Also included are "The Other Mexico," "Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude," "Mexico and the United States," and "The Philanthropic Ogre," all of which develop the themes of the title essay and extend his penetrating commentary to the United States and Latin America.
Preface | 5 | |
The Labyrinth of Solitude | 7 | |
The Pachuco and Other Extremes | 9 | |
Mexican Masks | 29 | |
The Day of the Dead | 47 | |
The Sons of La Malinche | 65 | |
The Conquest and Colonialism | 89 | |
From Independence to the Revolution | 117 | |
The Mexican Intelligentsia | 151 | |
The Present Day | 175 | |
The Dialectic of Solitude | 195 | |
The Other Mexico | 213 | |
Note | 215 | |
Olympics and Tlatelolco | 221 | |
Development and Other Mirages | 238 | |
Critique of the Pyramid | 284 | |
Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude | 327 | |
Mexico and the United States | 355 | |
The Philanthropic Ogre | 377 |