Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1995
Seller: Shelley and Son Books (IOBA), Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism and love. Kirkus Reviews: "Brimming with insight, thoughtfulness and sincerity." Condition: Paperback with cover illustration of "Amor and Psyche Reclining on a Couch". Owner's name and date on front fly leaf, no other writing within. 276 pp. Very Good+ condition. Full refund if not satisfied.
Published by Seaver Books, 1981
ISBN 10: 0394178092 ISBN 13: 9780394178097
Seller: Shelley and Son Books (IOBA), Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Paperback. White glossy cover with black text and red illustration. Many black and white illustrations throughout the text. Nobel Prize?winner Octavio Paz offers a dazzling mind journey to the sources of poetry. Poet, diplomat, writer, philosopher, hailed as an ?intellectual literary one-man band? by the New York Times Book Review, Nobel Prize?winner Octavio Paz was a key figure in the Latin American Literary Renaissance and in world literature. In this entrancing work, part prose-poem and part rumination on the origins of language and the antic, erotic, sacred nature of poetry, Paz takes inspiration from Hanuman, the red-faced monkey chief and ninth grammarian of Hindu mythology. On a journey to the temple city of Galta in India?which Paz finds partially ruined in a leaf-filled countryside surrounded by forbidding hills?Hanuman?s mythical encounters serve as the springboard for the poet?s speculations on all manners of things, from movement and fixity to meaning and identity, the reality behind language, and the nature of nature. Images of the holy city, complete with the marauding monkeys for which it is known, constantly obtrude on his musings. Perhaps the most poetic of Paz?s prose works, The Monkey Grammarian is visual: every page is rich in images, of palaces and temples, pilgrims and sadhus, and the monkey god himself. Paz?s probing, crystalline prose makes this an unforgettable voyage of the mind. 162pp.CONDITION> Covers are lightly rubbed, Several dogeared pages and some underlining. text is clear and easily read. Binding and textblock are sound. Full refund if not satisfied.
Published by Viking Press, C5a, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670237175 ISBN 13: 9780670237173
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1969. 148 pgs First Edition/First Printing. Price-clipped DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Wide-ranging "ruminations" by one of Mexico's foremost philosphers and poets on the condition of man, early civilizations, art and literature, sex and science and technology, and of materialism, capitalism and Communism. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Published by Viking, New York,, 1973
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Reprint. Hardcover, octavo; black boards with gilt spine titling and orange and pink decorative motifs, dark blue endpapers and top edges mauve; 215pp. Minor wear only; two small marks on side text block edges; small tear on upper spine edge of dustwrapper; slightly browned dustwrapper edges. Very good to near fine otherwise and protected in archival film with white paper backing. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Essays that range from a review of poet Luis Cernuda to D.H. Lawrence, Lowry and Breton, Fuentes and others. Paz deals with contemporary themes, the nature of drugs; Michaux; Bunuel and modern atheism; Marx and Nietzsche; the notion of Western philosophy as compared to plurality and Oriental philosophy. He further explores politics and ethics, probing the meaning of revolt, rebellion, and revolution.