In 1977, Paz was awarded the prestigious Jerusalem Prize for literature and in 1982 he was awarded the Neustadt Prize. From 1970 to 1974 Paz lectured at Harvard University, where he was made an honorary doctor in 1980. In 1945 Paz became a Mexican diplomat and moved to Paris, where he would write his masterpiece The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950), a collection of nine essays regarding the Mexican identity. In 1943 Paz received a Guggenheim Fellowship and he moved to the United States in order to study at the University of California, where he stayed for two years. His family was forced into exile, which they served in the United States, after the assassination of Mexican president Zapata, in 1919.

The Nobel Prize-winning OCTAVIO PAZ was born in 1914, near Mexico City. Compared to Ortega y Gasset's The Revolt of the Masses for its trenchant analysis, this collection contains his most famous work, 'The Labyrinth of Solitude,' a beautifully written and deeply felt discourse on Mexico's quest for identity that gives us an unequaled look at the country hidden behind 'the mask.' Also included are 'The Other Mexico,' 'Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude,' 'Mexico and the United States,' and 'The Philanthropic Ogre,' all of which develop the themes of the title essay and extend his penetrating commentary to the United States and Latin America. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Urn:oclc:679938102 Republisher_date 20120315180446 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120313162720 Scanner Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. Urn:lcp:labyrinthofsolit00pazo_0:epub:c6abdb3b-18f8-4bb5-86d2-2c5963629d72 Extramarc Columbia University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier labyrinthofsolit00pazo_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0qr5wr1w Isbn 9780802150424Ġ80215042X Lccn 82047999 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL22978297M Openlibrary_edition

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