Beschreibung:

VIII; 303 S.; 22 cm; fadengeh. Orig.-Halbleinenband m. OUmschl.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Ex.; OUmschl. stw. leicht berieben. - Englisch. - Erste engl. Aufl. - In this new collection of essays Octavio Paz continues to dazzle with his vast and subtle knowledge of the world - from the religious rites of the Aztecs to modern American painting, from Eastern art and religion to love and eroticism, from the chimeras of political ideology to the delights of aesthetic surprise. In an essay on linguistics and culture, we see pygmies of New Guinea terrorized by a passion-ridden recording of Edith Piaf. In literature, we watch an obscure Mexican poet graft the Japanese haiku onto his native verse. In a discussion of utopianism, we gain a new perspective on the revolution in manners "at table and in bed" in the United States of the sixties. In the critiques of modern art we discover why we are mesmerized by Picasso as the modern personality and painter, why we are cheered by Miro, who painted "like a child five thousand years old." / "The magnificence of [Paz's] essays is fearlessness, intelligence, literary grace and a willingness to make the opposite seem apposite and the paradoxical appear predictable." - Los Angeles Times. (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Reading and Contemplation ---- Seeing and Using: Art and Craftsmanship ---- At Table and in Bed ---- Iniquitous Symmetries ---- The New Analogy: Poetry and Technology ---- The Verbal Contract ---- Picasso: Hand-to-hand Combat with Painting ---- Literature and Literalness ---- Latin-American Poetry ---- (u.a.m.) ISBN 0151225850