In Light of India - Softcover

Octavio Paz

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ISBN 10: 8171673821 ISBN 13: 9788171673827

Publisher: Rupa & Co., 1990

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In 1951, octavio paz travelled to india to briefly serve as an attache in the mexican embassy he returned eleven years later as mexicos ambassador to india, a position he served in for six years in light of india is pazs most personal work of prose to date, a celebration of a country he loved his essays are full of knowledge and poetic insight and the result is a series of fascinating discourses on indias landscape, culture and history octavio paz (1914-1998) was born in mexico and is best known as a poet-essayist he was also a professor critic and translator and was mexican ambassador to india and france like neruda and jorge luis borges, paz is a latin american literary giant whose work has influenced south americas politics and culture, as well as the worlds many of his books have been translated to english, including his renowned collection of essays on love and criticism, the double flame (harvill, 1996) he received the nobel prize for literature in 1990

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Uncertainty stalks Octavio Paz. In Light of India is Paz's return to issues addressed in his poems of India that were inspired by his residence there three decades earlier. The paradoxes of a troubled nation are persistent, and Paz revisits the unfathomable facets of India with an eye on his Mexican homeland. Beneath the sensuous veneer of modern India lies a complex lattice of religious tendrils that reach into and influence Indian history, society, literature, and art. Paz follows these tendrils as well as anyone can, piecing together a nation of beauty, profundity, and enigma. Profundity aside, if Paz were writing about dust particles, he'd be worth reading.

About the Author:

Octavio Paz was born in 1914 and died in 1998. The author of eighteen books, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.

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