Written with a poet's sensibility and a diplomat's sense of history, these essays view a contemporary world poised between the upheaval of the 1960s and the uncertainties of the 1980s. "Essays at once eloquent and slashing, urgent and erudite" (Publishers Weekly). Translated by Helen Lane.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Spanish --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Octavio Paz was born in 1914 and died in 1998. The author of eighteen books, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.
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Around 1960 a series of civic upheavals began that made the West tremble. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, Soviet Union, Latin America, Central America, New Spain, Western Europe, Mexican Revolution, Spanish Empire, Communist Party, Costa Rica, French Revolution, Hispanic America, New York, Russian State, Simone Weil, Marcus Aurelius, Modem Age, Pol Pot, Cuban Revolution, Eastern Europe, Federal Republic of Germany, Fidel Castro, Great Britain, Leon Trotsky, Modern Age New!
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Around 1960 a series of civic upheavals began that made the West tremble. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
historical novelty, historical legitimacy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Soviet Union, Latin America, Central America, New Spain, Western Europe, Mexican Revolution, Spanish Empire, Communist Party, Costa Rica, French Revolution, Hispanic America, New York, Russian State, Simone Weil, Marcus Aurelius, Modem Age, Pol Pot, Cuban Revolution, Eastern Europe, Federal Republic of Germany, Fidel Castro, Great Britain, Leon Trotsky, Modern Age New!
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- The French Revolution: 1770-1814 (History of France) by Francois Furet on page 195, and page 196
- Selected Poems by Patrick Lane in Front Matter
- The Bhagavad Gita by Sir Edwin Arnold on page 107
- The Bow and the Lyre (Texas Pan American Series) by Octavio Paz in Front Matter
- The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky on page 54
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- Magic Realism: Social Context and Discourse (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by Maria-Elena Angulo in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Shattering the Myth: Islam Beyond Violence by Bruce B. Lawrence in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Shattering the Myth by Bruce Lawrence in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Enemy in the Mirror by Roxanne L. Euben in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Southern Women by Caroline M. Dillman on page 220, and page 221
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