On Poets and Others - Softcover

Paz, Octavio

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ISBN 10: 1559701390 ISBN 13: 9781559701396

Publisher: Arcade Publishing, 1991

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A collection of essays by the Nobel Prize-winning author discusses Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Baudelaire, Jean Paul Sartre, Luis Bunuel, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn, among other fellow poets and writers. Reissue.

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Spanish

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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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