OCTAVIO PAZ (1914-1998) was a prolific Mexican poet, writer and diplomat, recognized as one of the major Latin American writers of the 20th century. He was awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature "for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity."
Paz was influenced in turn by Marxism, Surrealism, existentialism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. In 1937 the young poet visited Spain, where he identified strongly with the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War. His poetic reflections on that experience revealed him as a writer of real promise. In the poetry of his maturity, he used a rich flow of surrealistic imagery in dealing with metaphysical questions. As one critic said, he explored the zones of modern culture outside the marketplace, and his most prominent theme was the human ability to overcome existential solitude through erotic love and artistic creativity. THE POEMS OF OCTAVIO PAZ (2012), edited by Eliot Weinberger, is a career-spanning collection of his poems in English translation.
He produced prose volumes of essays and literary criticism, including what is perhaps his most famous work, THE LABYRINTH OF SOLITUDE (1950), an influential book-length essay in which he analyzed the character, history, and culture of Mexico, and THE BOW AND THE LYRE (1956), a study of contemporary Spanish American poetry.
His later work shows an ever-deepening intelligence and complexity as it investigates the intersection of philosophy, religion, art, politics, and the role of the individual. His collections of essays engage culture, linguistics, literary theory, history, and politics with a level of originality and erudition that is unrivaled; these and his poems form a breadth of work that expresses, in the words of Carlos Fuentes, "the existence of a plurality of possibilities for harmony and truth, outside the limited range of our inherited dogmas." Later prose works include CONJUNCTIONS AND DISJUNCTIONS (1969), a discussion of the world's cultural attitudes, and THE MONKEY GRAMMARIAN (1974), a meditation on language. 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.
This is an substantial update of an earlier torrent and includes many new scans. The following books are in PDF format unless otherwise indicated:
== POETRY ==
* Airborn / Hijos del aire [with Charles Tomlinson] (Arcade, 1981). * Collected Poems, 1957-1987 (New Directions, 1991). Eliot Weinberger, ed.
* Configurations (New Directions, 1971). G. Aroul et al., trans.
* Draft of Shadows & Other Poems (New Directions, 1979). E. Weinberger et al., trans.
* Early Poems 1935-1955 (New Directions, 1973). Muriel Rukeyser et al., trans.
* Figures and Figurations [with M. José Paz] (New Directions, 2002). E. Weinberger, trans.
* Poems of Octavio Paz (New Directions, 2012). Eliot Weinberger, ed. -- PDF + ePUB
* Selected Poems (New Directions, 1984). Eliot Weinberger, ed. (PDF by @pharmakate)
* Sunstone (Scriptor, 1991). Raymond Soulard, Jr. and Kassandra Kramer, ed.
* Tale of Two Gardens, A (New Directions, 1997). Eliot Weinberger, trans.
* Tree Within, A (New Directions, 1988). Eliot Weinberger, trans.
== PROSE ==
* Alternating Current (Arcade, 1990). Helen Lane, trans. -- PDF + ePUB
* Bow and the Lyre, The (Texas, 2009). Ruth L. C. Simms, trans. -- ePUB
* Children of the Mire (Harvard, 1974). R. Phillips, trans.
* Conjunctions and Disjunctions (Arcade, 2011). Helen Lane, trans. -- ePUB
* Convergences: Essays on Art and Literature (Bloomsbury, 1987). Helen Lane, trans.
* Double Flame: Essays on Love & Eroticism (Harcourt, 1995). Lane, trans. -- PDF + ePUB
* Eagle or Sun? / Aguila o Sol? (October House, 1973/ ND, 1976). E.s Weinberger, trans.
* Erotic Beyond, An: Sade (Harcourt, 1998). Eliot Weinberger, trans.
* Essays on Mexican Art (Harcourt, 1993). Helen Lane, trans.
* In Light of India (Vintage, 1997). Eliot Weinberger, trans. -- ePUB
* In Search of the Present: The Nobel Lecture (HBJ, 1991). Anthony Stanton, trans.
* Itinerary: An Intellectual Journey (Harcourt, 2000). Jason Wilson, trans.
* Labyrinth of Solitude (Grove, 1961). Lysander Kemp, trans. (PDF by @pharmakate)
* Labyrinth of Solitude & Other Writings, The (Grove, 1985). Lysander Kemp et al., trans.
* Marcel Duchamp (Arcade, 2011). Phillips and Gardner, trans. -- ePUB
* Monkey Grammarian, The (Seaver, 1981 / Arcade, 2017). Lane, trans. -- PDF + ePUB
* On Poets and Others (Arcade, 1990). Michael Schmidt, trans. -- PDF + ePUB
* Other Mexico, The: Critique of the Pyramid (Grove, 1972). Lysander Kemp, trans.
* Other Voice, The: Essays on Modern Poetry (Harcourt, 1991). Helen Lane, trans.
* Siren and the Seashell, The (Texas, 1976). Kemp & Sayers Peden, trans. -- PDF + ePUB
* Sor Juana, or Traps of Faith (Harvard, 1988). Sayers Peden, trans. (PDF by @pharmakate)
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