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Octavio Paz 1914-1998. Early Life:. Octavio Paz Solorzono & Josefino Lozano. Diplomat Taller. Career:. Guggenheim fellowship University of California Mexican Diplomatic Service Mexican ambassador. Middle life:. Tlatelolco massacre Spanish American Literature
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Octavio Paz 1914-1998
Early Life: • Octavio Paz Solorzono & Josefino Lozano. • Diplomat • Taller
Career: • Guggenheim fellowship • University of California • Mexican Diplomatic Service • Mexican ambassador
Middle life: • Tlatelolco massacre • Spanish American Literature • Plural (magazine) • Vuella (publication)
Influences: • Influenced by Marxism, surrealism, existentialism as well as Hinduism and Buddhism. • Degree-Harvard. • Cervantes award • First author to express with Indian theme
Writings & Works: El Laberinto de la Soledad (The Labyrinth of Solitude) The Grammarian Monkey and East Slope The Double Flame Love and Eroticism In light of India
Poem: The Street Here is a long and silent street.I walk in blackness and I stumble and falland rise, and I walk blind, my feettrampling the silent stones and the dry leaves.Someone behind me also tramples, stones, leaves:if I slow down, he slows;if I run, he runs I turn : nobody.Everything dark and doorless,only my steps aware of me,I turning and turning among these cornerswhich lead forever to the streetwhere nobody waits for, nobody follows me,where I pursue a man who stumblesand rises and says when he sees me : nobody.