Octavio Paz - Nobel Prize in Literature, 1990 (18 books)

OCTAVIO PAZ (1914-1998) was a Mexican poet-diplomat and writer. He was awarded the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature "for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity." Ilan Stavans wrote that Paz was "the quintessential surveyor, a Dante's Virgil, a Renaissance man."

Perhaps his most famous work is THE LABYRINTH OF SOLITUDE (1950), a book-length essay that delves into the minds of his countrymen, describing them as hidden behind masks of solitude. Due to their history, their identity is lost between a pre-Columbian and a Spanish culture, negating either. A key work in understanding Mexican culture, it greatly influenced other Mexican writers, such as Carlos Fuentes.

In addition, this torrent presents a selection of Paz's poetry and a number of important essay collections, including ALTERNATING CURRENT, CONVERGENCES, THE OTHER MEXICO, and THE BOW AND THE LYRE. Along with these are volumes of critical studies and biographies, including of MARCEL DUCHAMP and SOR JUANA, an analytical biography of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the Mexican 17th-century nun, feminist poet, mathematician, and thinker.


The following books are in PDF format unless otherwise indicated:

* AIRBORN / HIJOS DEL AIRE [with Charles Tomlinson] (Arcade, 1981).

* ALTERNATING CURRENT (Arcade, 1990). Translated by Helen Lane. -- PDF + ePUB

* THE BOW AND THE LYRE (University of Texas, 2009). Translated by Ruth L. C. Simms. -- ePUB

* CHILDREN OF THE MIRE: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde (Harvard UP, 1974). Translated by Rachel Phillips.

* CONJUNCTIONS AND DISJUNCTIONS (Arcade, 2011). Translated by Helen Lane. -- ePUB

* CONVERGENCES: Essays on Art and Literature (Bloomsbury, 1987). Translated by Helen Lane.

* THE DOUBLE FLAME: Love and Eroticism (Harcourt, 1995). Translated by Helen Lane.

* ESSAYS ON MEXICAN ART (Harcourt, 1993). Translated by Helen Lane.

* ITINERARY: An Intellectual Journey (Harcourt, 2000). Translated by Jason Wilson.

* THE LABYRINTH OF SOLITUDE: Life and Thought in Mexico (Grove, 1961). Translated by Lysander Kemp. Originally scanned by and reproduced here with the kind permission of @pharmakate.

* MARCEL DUCHAMP: Appearance Stripped Bare (Arcade, 2011). Translated by Rachel Phillips and Donald Gardner. -- ePUB

* THE MONKEY GRAMMARIAN (Seaver, 1981). Translated by Helen Lane. -- PDF + ePUB

* ON POETS AND OTHERS (Arcade, 1990). Translated by Michael Schmidt. -- PDF + ePUB

* THE OTHER MEXICO: Critique of the Pyramid (Grove, 1972). Translated by Lysander Kemp.

* SELECTED POEMS (New Directions, 1984). Edited by Eliot Weinberger. Originally scanned by and reproduced here with the kind permission of @pharmakate.

* THE SIREN AND THE SEASHELL & Other Essays on Poets and Poetry (University of Texas, 1976). Translated by Lysander Kemp. -- PDF + ePUB

* SOR JUANA, or The Traps of Faith (Harvard UP, 1988). Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. Originally scanned by and reproduced here with the kind permission of @pharmakate.

* SUNSTONE (Scriptor, 1991). Edited by Raymond Soulard, Jr. and Kassandra Kramer.