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| Original Title: | El laberinto de la soledad |
| ISBN: | 080215042X (ISBN13: 9780802150424) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Mexico |
Octavio Paz
Paperback | Pages: 398 pages Rating: 4.15 | 10028 Users | 493 Reviews
Details Of Books The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
| Title | : | The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings |
| Author | : | Octavio Paz |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 398 pages |
| Published | : | January 12th 1994 by Grove Press (first published 1950) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Writing. Essays. History. European Literature. Spanish Literature |
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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.Rating Of Books The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
Ratings: 4.15 From 10028 Users | 493 ReviewsWrite Up Of Books The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
Paz dissects Mexican politics and culture. There were some interesting sections of this book, but he says the same things over and over again, describing Mexico as a palimpsest where Spanish Catholicism overlays itself on Aztec religious theocracy. There were also some parts of the book I did not care about, such as long discussions of the history of Mexico's many revolutions and a critique of each regime.Also, Paz states often as generalized facts things that, while he may be trying to presentThis is A MUST for any mexican studying out there. Every school has it on their resumé. The book picture perfectly mexican culture, the pros & cons, the lacks and virtues, the ideas that have remained fixed in the mind of every mexican-born, mexican-raised individual: the genetic mapping of a culture.I loved the book, I felt somewhat identified & the prose is beautiful and precise. I still don't find Octavio Paz to be the best mexican writer (even if he's the only one with Nobel Prize),
"Myths and fiestas, whether secular or religious, permit man to emerge from his solitude and become one with creation"Octavio Paz pulls much of this work together with this statement. Once one might squeeze around or past linear concepts of space and time, allowing for a complex (not complicated) system of thought existent in present presence, Paz's thoughts on myth and fiesta sound closer to truth's fragile being. The last paragraph does not end this work as much as it presents a beginning:
Paz wrote an interesting inspection of the Mexican story with the Labyrinth of Solitude. He has crafted a meditation on the contemporary Mexican in two parts. The first part of the book discusses the cultural aspects that contribute to the Mexican as neurotic and the second part discusses the historical and political aspects that contribute to this state. But it is important to note, this is sociological psychology; a mental health evaluation of the Mexican mind. However, Paz does not attempt an
There was a common joke I used to hear a lot when I was a teenager, and that was "Call someone from Mexico a Mexican and they will get angry and tell you they are not Mexican." I found it funny at the time because it seemed to work every time. But in reality, the words must have cut far deeper than I imagined. And after reading Octavio Paz's Labyrinth of Solitude, I can understand why.Paz brilliantly links Mexico's history with the question of "What makes a Mexican a Mexican?" It pervades every
My infatuation with the Mexican mask culture must somehow mirror that of the Jungian persona; after all, man is amidst, in the words of José Corostiza, a "wilderness of mirrors." Paz has created an air of holistic realm, giving psychological, sociological, anthropological, and historical insights and adding the zest of poetry, artistic creation, and the art of love to conclude an interpretation and understanding of Mexican culture so vivid, yet so dark.The Labyrinth of Solitude presents an
Paz wrote an interesting inspection of the Mexican story with the Labyrinth of Solitude. He has crafted a meditation on the contemporary Mexican in two parts. The first part of the book discusses the cultural aspects that contribute to the Mexican as neurotic and the second part discusses the historical and political aspects that contribute to this state. But it is important to note, this is sociological psychology; a mental health evaluation of the Mexican mind. However, Paz does not attempt an
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