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On Poets & Others 1ST Edition - Hardcover

Paz, Octavio

 
9780805000030: On Poets & Others 1ST Edition
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ISBN 10: 0805000038 ISBN 13: 9780805000030
Verlag: Distributed by H. Holt, 1986

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In these short, polemical, engaged essays, the noted Mexican critic and poet locks horns with writers, past and present. He calls Dostoyevski "our great contemporary," a novelist who forces us to see our divided selves, our nihilism. Whitman, the sincere dreamer of utopian democracy, is contrasted with Poe, Melville and Dickinson, whose writings are "more like attempts to escape from the American nightmare." Paz is disappointed in Sartre, a thinker who "always preferred shadows to realities." While defending Solzhenitsyn's Christian humanism, he feels the novelist's ignorance of modern history amounts to arrogance"a very Russian trait." Paz investigates the act of seeing in Bunuel's cinema of disillusion, William Carlos Williams's search for American roots, Michaux's mescaline visions and Breton's magic surrealism. (September
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Distributed by H. Holt
Erscheinungsdatum
1986
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0805000038
ISBN 13 
9780805000030
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