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Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. 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.

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Octavio Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Compared to Ortega y Gasset's The Revolt of the Masses for its trenchant analysis, this collection contains Octavio Paz' most famous work, The Labyrinth... Read Full Overview

El Laberinto de la Soledad, escrito por Octavio Paz y publicado bajo el ISBN 9786074537987 por S lector, S.A. de C.V., es una obra fundamental en la literatura mexicana y un profundo ensayo sobre la identidad y la cultura mexicana. En este libro, Octavio Paz, uno de los intelectuales... Read Full Overview

Examines Mexican character and culture, pre-Columbian societies, and relations between Mexico and the United States.

Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. 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. Compared to Ortega y Gasset's The Revolt of... Read Full Overview

This is an annotated edition of El laberinto de la soledad, a classic text on Mexican culture and identity, first published in 1950 by Nobel prize winner Octavio Paz. It includes a wide-ranging introduction, hundreds of explanatory notes and four appendices.