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El laberinto de la soledad es una de las piezas claves de la literatura moderna, ensayo el mismo moderno y reflexión critica sobre la modernidad. En la historia de la literatura hispanoamericana se trata de la prosa ensayística más importante de este siglo, la que ha influido mas en el pensamiento y en la literatura de lengua española y la que mas ha resonado en los de otras lenguas. En el contexto intelectual hispánico, pertenece a la tradición del ensayo de identidad nacional. En palabras de Octavio Paz: "Es un libro dentro de la tradición francesa del moralismo. Es una descripción de ciertas actitudes por una parte, y por otra, un ensayo de interpretación historica." Es una voluntad de interpretar criticamente la realidad historica de México. Esta edición de El laberinto de la soledad se ha hecho en estrecha colaboración con el propio Octavio Paz, que no solo ha revisado, especialmente para este publicación, sus propios textos, sino que ademas ha leido y revisado las aportaciones de Enrico Mario Santí. Se incluye también un texto inedito de Octavio Paz, El tres y el cuatro, y tres nuevas versiones, de otros tantos textos, realizadas por el autor para esta edición.

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First published in 1950, The Labyrinth of Solitude addresses issues that are both seemingly eternal and resoundingly contemporary: the nature of political power in post-conquest Mexico, the relation of Native Americans to Europeans, the ubiquity of official corruption. Noting these matters earned Paz no small amount of trouble from the Mexican leadership, but it also brought him renown as a social critic. Paz, who went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, later voiced his disillusionment with all political systems--as the Mexican proverb has it, "all revolutions degenerate into governments"--but his call for democracy in this book has lately been reverberating throughout Mexico, making it timely once again.

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Octavio Paz was born in Mexico City in 1914 to a family of Spanish and native Mexican descent. He was the author of more than twenty-five books of poetry and prose. In addition to being a poet, essayist, playwright, social philosopher, and critic, he also served as a Mexican diplomat in France and Japan, and as ambassador to India. He was awarded the Cervantes Award in 1981, the Neustadt Prize in 1982, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. Octavio Paz died in 1998.

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