Name: sunstone/piedra de sol (in English)
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Author: Paz, Octavio ; Weinberger, Eliot
ISBN: 9780811211956

portada sunstone/piedra de sol (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Octavio Paz

Translated by

Eliot Weinberger

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.9 x 15.6 x 0.7 cm

Weight

0.13 kg.

ISBN

9780811211956

ISBN13

9780811211956

Synopsis "sunstone/piedra de sol (in English)"

Presented in Eliot Weinberger's excellent new translation with the Spanish texts en face, this is the 1957 poem that definitively established Paz as a major international figure (Sagetrieb). Written as a single cyclical sentence (at the end of the poem the first six lines are written again), Sunstone is a tour de force of momentum. It takes as its structural basis the circular Aztec calendar, which measured the synodic period of the planet Venus (584 days--the number of lines of Sunstone). But, as The New Republic noted, this esoteric correlative design...does not circumscribe its subject. [It is] a lyrically discursive exploration of time and memory, of erotic love, or art and writing.

Octavio Paz

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Octavio Irineo Paz Lozano (Ciudad de México, 31 de marzo de 1914-ibidem, 19 de abril de 1998), registrado al nacer como Octavio Irineo Paz Lozano, fue un poeta, ensayista y diplomático mexicano. Obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1990 y el Premio Cervantes en 1981. Se le considera uno de los más influyentes autores del siglo XX y uno de los más grandes poetas de todos los tiempos.

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