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Paz, Octavio (31 March 1914 - 19 April 1998)
Jorge Aguilar Mora
University of Maryland at College Park
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1990 Nobel Prize in Literature Presentation Speech
Paz: Banquet Speech
Press Release: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1990
Paz: Nobel Lecture, 8 December 1990
This entry was revised from Aguilar Mora’s Paz entry in DLB 290: Modern Spanish American Poets, Second Series. See also the Paz entries in DLB Yearbook: 1990 and DLB Yearbook: 1998.
BOOKS: Luna silvestre (Mexico City: Fábula, 1933);
No pasarán (Mexico City: Simbad, 1936);
Raíz del hombre (Mexico City: Simbad, 1937);
Bajo tu clara sombra y otros poemas sobre España (Valencia: Ediciones Españolas, 1937);
Entre la piedra y la flor (Mexico City: Nueva Voz, 1941);
A la orilla del mundo y Primer día, Bajo tu clara sombra, Raíz del hombre, Noche de resurrecciones (Mexico City: ARS, 1942);
Libertad bajo palabra (Mexico City: Tezontle, 1949); revised and enlarged as Libertad bajo palabra: Obra poética, 1935–1957 (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1960; revised and enlarged again, 1968);
El laberinto de la soledad (Mexico City: Cuadernos Americanos, 1950; revised and enlarged edition, Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económi
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Mexican, 1914–
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The Incomplete End of Modernity of Octavio Paz
Salvo una sección dedicada a la idea de Paz sobre la modernidad en el arte, lo que sigue es un capítulo de Gunshots at the Fiesta. Literature and Politics in Latin America, libro que reúne ensayos de Van Delden e Yvon Grenier publicado por Vanderbilt University Press, 2009, pp. 115-136.
The theme of the end of modernity had an extraordinarily tenacious hold on Octavio Paz’s imagination. From the 1940s to the 1990s, over a period of approximately half a century, Paz returned repeatedly to the topic of modernity’s demise. Again and again, he argued that the world was witnessing the end of the modern era and that something profoundly different would emerge from its breakup. Yet when confronted with the term “postmodernity,” he responded with impatience and even derision. While dwelling at great length on the crisis of modernity, Paz roundly rejected the idea that the world had moved beyond modernity and into postmodernity. Indeed, he often claimed that it was too early to tell what would come after modernity. In La otra voz (1990), for example, he argued that “la modernidad está herida de muerte”, but he also conceded that it was not yet possible to discern “la nueva estrella intelectual que ha de guiar a los hom