Paz, Octavio

New York. 1981. Grove Press/Black Cat. 6th Paperback Printing. Very Good in Wrappers. 0394177738. Translated from the Spanish by Lysander Kemp. 148 pages. paperback. B-359. . keywords: Literature Translated Mexico Latin America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - In THE LABYRINTH OF SOLITUDE: LIFE AND THOUGHT IN MEXICO, Octavio Paz, one of the major poets of our time, defined the character and culture of Mexico in what has now become a modern classic of critical interpretation. In this book, Paz provides a brilliant supplement and extension to his earlier work, not only bringing it up to date, but also offering a new attempt to decipher the modern Mexican reality. Mexican student unrest came to a climax on October 2, 1968 with the massacre in the Plaza of Tlatelolco in Mexico City of more than three hundred students. The killings ended an epoch in Mexican history. In The Other Mexico, Paz traces the ‘invisible history' of his country which led to the bloodshed - the survival, amid the trappings of a modern culture, of the Aztec model of domination and ritualistic sacrifice. Paz examines the symbol of the truncated pyramid of the Aztecs as an image of the world and a projection of the human society which continues to rule the development of Mexico even in modern times. This important historical and philosophical essay about modern Mexico has particular relevance in the light of the political unrest in Latin America. As a treatment of the development of today's Mexico from a political, historical, and cultural point of view, this book by a major Latin American writer and poet is without doubt a seminal contribution to the history of our time. inventory #18269 ISBN: 0394177738.