Alternating Current
by Octavio Paz
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A key figure in the Latin American literary renaissance, Octavio Paz focuses here on literature and art, drugs, the murder of God, and ethical and political problems.Tags
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Corriente alterna de Octavio Paz es una colección de ensayos que analiza los cambios culturales y políticos de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Con su característico estilo reflexivo, Paz explora temas como la modernidad, la vanguardia artística y la evolución del pensamiento occidental. La obra ofrece una mirada profunda sobre la transformación de la sociedad y el papel del individuo en un mundo en constante cambio.
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Octavio Paz was born in Mexico City, Mexico on March 31, 1914. In 1938, he became one of the founders of the journal, Taller. In 1943, he travelled to the United States on a Guggenheim Fellowship where he became immersed in Anglo-American Modernist poetry. He entered the Mexican diplomatic service in 1945 and was sent to France then India. In show more 1968, he resigned from the diplomatic service in protest against the government's suppression of the student demonstrations during the Olympic Games in Mexico. He was a poet and an essayist. His works include The Labyrinth of Solitude, The Grammarian Monkey, East Slope, and The Other Mexico. He received numerous awards including the Cervantes award in 1981, the American Neustadt Prize in 1982, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990. He also worked as an editor and publisher. He founded two magazines dedicated to the arts and politics: Plural and Vuelta. He died of cancer on April 19, 1998. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- Corriente Alterna
- Original publication date
- 1967-08-12 (original Spanish) (original Spanish); 1983 (English: Lane) (English: Lane)
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 864 — Literature & rhetoric Spanish Literature Spanish essays
- LCC
- PQ7297 .P285 .C613 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Spanish literature Provincial, local, colonial, etc. Spanish America
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- Languages
- English, French, Spanish
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- Paper, Ebook
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- 15
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- 3
