Name: eagle or sun
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Author: Paz, Octavio
ISBN: 9780811206235

Type

Physical Book

Author

Octavio Paz

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Year

1976

Language

English

Pages

132

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.5 x 12.6 x 0.8 cm

Weight

0.15 kg.

ISBN

0811206238

ISBN13

9780811206235

Synopsis "eagle or sun"

The first major book of short prose poetry in Spanish, Eagle or Sun? (Aguila o Sol?) exerted an enormous influence on modern Latin American writing. Written in 1949-50 by Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz, Eagle or Sun? has as its mythopoeic place Mexico--a country caught up in its pre-Columbian past, the world of modern imperialism, and an apocalyptic future foretold by the Aztec calendar. Indeed, three personae of the book--the goddess Itzapaplotl, the prophet clerk, the poet--are manifestations of the threefold aspects of the land. Paz himself explains: Eagle or Sun? is an exploration of Mexico, yes, but at the same time, and above all, it is an exploration of the relations between language and the poet, reality and language, the poet and history.

Octavio Paz

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Octavio Irineo Paz Lozano (Mexico City, March 31, 1914-ibidem, April 19, 1998), registered at birth as Octavio Irineo Paz Lozano, was a Mexican poet, essayist, and diplomat. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990 and the Cervantes Prize in 1981. He is considered one of the most influential authors of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets of all time.

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