La Plaza
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links.
April 15, 2008
Books
“I cannot begin this lecture without paying homage to the great Mexican poet and essayist Octavio Paz.
May 10, 1998
Archives
Re “Octavio Paz, Mexico’s Everyman,” editorial, April 21: I first read “The Labyrinth of Solitude” when I was a student at Cal State Fullerton and chairman of MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan).
April 30, 1998
The Last Mandarin: An Appreciation
April 21, 1998
I draw these letters As the day draws its images and blows over them And does not return --Octavio Paz, “A Draft of Shadows” Throughout a long, prodigious and brilliant literary career, words have been the weapon that Octavio Paz has raised against the onslaught of time and its limitations to human existence.
Dec. 20, 1990
World & Nation
Mexican writer Octavio Paz, a onetime diplomat whose poems and essays amalgamate a variety of cultures, won the 1990 Nobel Literature Prize today.
Oct. 11, 1990
Entertainment & Arts
Into Octavio Paz’s intellectual universe
May 11, 2010
Mexico mourns the death of Octavio Paz, its poet laureate and most celebrated man of letters.
THE DOUBLE FLAME by Octavio Paz (Harcourt Brace: $22; 276 pp.)
April 30, 1995
From government leaders and billionaire businessmen to jeans-clad students and workers, this nation on Monday mourned the death of Octavio Paz, its Nobel Prize-winning poet and philosopher who died over the weekend at age 84.