17 books by Octavio Paz
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Overview: OCTAVIO PAZ (1914-1998) was a Mexican poet-diplomat and writer. He was awarded the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature "for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity."
Genre: Poetry > Literature | Non-fiction > Literary Criticism



Airborn / Hijos Del Aire (.PDF)
A bilingual sequence of sonnets written jointly by the Mexican poet Octavio Paz and his English fellow poet and translator Charles Tomlinson.

Alternating Current (.PDF + .ePUB)
A collection of essays in which Paz sets forth his credo as an artist and poet; deals with themes such as Western individualism versus plurality and flux in Eastern philosophy, atheism versus belief, nihilism, liberated man, and versions of paradise; and discusses politics and ethics in essays on revolt and revolution, existentialism, Marxism, the third world, and the new face of Latin America.

The Bow and the Lyre (.ePUB)
Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives.

Children of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde (.PDF)
A sharp convincing analysis of modern poetry since Romanticism.

Conjunctions And Disjunctions (.ePUB)
Paz offers what he calls his “rough draft” for a history of man, which is a history of human nature rather than of men or of cultures and civilizations. Ranging through Eastern and Western religions, ancient and contemporary civilizations, and subjects as diverse as history, politics, science, and literature, Paz cites saints, philosophers, anthropologists, and psychoanalysts as he teases out the correspondences and contrasts that comprise this history.

Convergences: Essays on Art and Literature (.PDF)
Engrossing essays that reflect the author’s vast and subtle knowledge of the world. Topics range from the religious rites of the Aztecs to modern american painting, from Eastern art and religion to love and eroticism.

The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism (.PDF)
In this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, original sin to artificial intelligence.

Essays on Mexican Art (.PDF)
Art, philosophy, religion, and the history of the world converge as Paz celebrates the richness of Mexico in these fourteen dazzling essays. “To read [this collection] is to join a passionate guide for a journey through a new world, the world of the beginning” (Los Angeles Times).

Itinerary: An Intellectual Journey (.PDF)
Itinerary records the evolution of Paz's political ideas. It is an intellectual autobiography, in a sense, but also a sentimental and even passionate one. He tells the story of his journey through time, from youth to adulthood. It is not a straight line, nor is it a circle; it is instead a spiral that turns ceaselessly over, bringing into view a time seventy years in the past and the actions of today.

The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico (.PDF)
A book-length essay that delves into the minds of Paz's countrymen, describing them as hidden behind masks of solitude. Due to their history, their identity is lost between a pre-Columbian and a Spanish culture, negating either. A key work in understanding Mexican culture, it greatly influenced other Mexican writers, such as Carlos Fuentes.

Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare (.ePUB)
A critical study of the great French painter and sculptor.

On Poets and Others (.PDF + .ePUB)
A selection of Paz's best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, he discusses a wide range of poets and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams; from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Luis Buñuel to Alexander Solzhenitsyn; and from Charles Baudelaire to Jean-Paul Sartre, André Breton, and Henri Michaux.

The Other Mexico: Critique of the Pyramid (.PDF)
Four essays on Mexico.

Selected Poems (edited by Eliot Weinberger) (.PDF)
Among the sixty-seven selections in this volume, a gathering in English of his most essential poems drawn from nearly fifty years' work, are Muriel Rukeyser's now classic version of "Sun Stone" and new translations of “Blanco" and "Maithuna."

The Siren and the Seashell & Other Essays on Poets and Poetry (.PDF + .ePUB)
A collection of Paz’s essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general. Among the poets treated are Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rubén Darío, José Juan Tablada, Ramón López Velarde, and Alfonso Reyes; Robert Frost, e. e. cummings, Saint-John Perse, Antonio Machado, and Jorge Guillén. Finally, there are Paz’s reflections on the poetry of solitude and communion and the literature of Latin America.

Sor Juana, or The Traps of Faith (.PDF)
An analytical biography of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the Mexican 17th-century nun, feminist poet, mathematician, and thinker.

Sunstone (.PDF)
This is the 1957 poem that definitively established Paz as a major international figure. 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.

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Acknowledgments: A very special thanks to @pharmakate, who originally scanned three of the above books and allowed me to include them in this collection.