On poets and others - Hardcover

Paz, Octavio; Schmidt, Michael (translator)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805000038 ISBN 13: 9780805000030

Publisher: Seaver Books, 1986

Synopsis

A very good or slightly better copy with no markings and light wear. Paz comments on - Frost; Whitman; Carlos Williams, Sartre; Baudelaire; Breton; Michaux; Dostoevski and more. A n excellent work.

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Language Notes:

Text: English, Spanish

From Publishers Weekly:

In these short, polemical, engaged essays, the noted Mexican critic and poet locks horns with writers, past and present. He calls Dostoyevski "our great contemporary," a novelist who forces us to see our divided selves, our nihilism. Whitman, the sincere dreamer of utopian democracy, is contrasted with Poe, Melville and Dickinson, whose writings are "more like attempts to escape from the American nightmare." Paz is disappointed in Sartre, a thinker who "always preferred shadows to realities." While defending Solzhenitsyn's Christian humanism, he feels the novelist's ignorance of modern history amounts to arrogance"a very Russian trait." Paz investigates the act of seeing in Bunuel's cinema of disillusion, William Carlos Williams's search for American roots, Michaux's mescaline visions and Breton's magic surrealism. (September
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About this edition

• Publisher: Seaver Books
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0805000038
• ISBN 13: 9780805000030
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 219