Bücher von Octavio Paz

>Das Reich PansEros und PsycheVorgeschichte der LiebeDie Dame und die Heilige< und >Der öffentliche Platz und das Schlafzimmer< entwickelt der mexikanische Nobelpreisträger Octavio Paz (geb. 1914) eine Kulturgeschichte der Liebe, stellt Fragen nach den Bedingungen von Liebe und Erotik; nach der Funktion der Vorstellungskraft bei der Transformation der Sexualität in Erotik; nach der personalen Freiheit in der freiwilligen Knechtschaft der Liebe. Dabei leitet ihn - neben Wißbegierde - eine Sorge: Sind wir gegen Ende dieses Jahrhunderts womöglich dabei, das zu verspielen, was stets die Grundvoraussetzung von Liebe und erfüllter Sexualität gewesen ist? Lassen wir es zu, daß Eros und Psyche selbst aus der gesellschaftlichen Wirklichkeit verjagt werden?

The final legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Labyrinth of SolitudeItinerary records the evolution of the political ideas of Octavio Paz, the great Mexican writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. It is an intellectual autobiography, in a sense, but also a sentimental and even passionate one. In his thoughts Paz realized the past was inseparable from the present. And so he tells the story of his journey through time, from youth to adulthood. It is not a straight line, nor is it a circle; it is instead a spiral that turns ceaselessly over, bringing into view a time seventy years in the past and the actions of today. It is the final work by a great thinker and a magnificent writer.

"One of the most brilliant and original essayists in any language” (Washington Post Book World) reflects on the six years he spent in India as Mexican ambassador-and reveals how the people and culture of that extraordinary land changed his life. Translated by Eliot Weinberger.

In seven elegant essays that range across centuries and literatures, Paz offers his thoughts on how modern poetry came to be, what makes it ?modern,? and what it may become. Translated by Helen Lane.

Written with a poet's sensibility and a diplomat's sense of history, these essays view a contemporary world poised between the upheaval of the 1960s and the uncertainties of the 1980s. "Essays at once eloquent and slashing, urgent and erudite" (Publishers Weekly). Translated by Helen Lane.

The speech delivered by Paz in acceptance of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature, in which he discusses gratitude, separateness, and modernity. Published in a handsome bilingual edition. Translated by Anthony Stanton.

Engrossing essays that reflect the author's vast and subtle knowledge of the world. Topics range from the religious rites of the Aztecs to modern american painting, from Eastern art and religion to love and eroticism. Translated by Helen Lane.

In this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, original sin to artificial intelligence. ?Brimming with insight, thoughtfulness, and sincerity? (Kirkus Reviews). Translated by Helen Lane.

Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives.