Comments on: How Mexico’s greatest author defined a country from afar https://mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/how-mexicos-greatest-author-defined-a-country-from-afar/ Mexico's English-language news Wed, 22 May 2024 21:06:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: jarrettleinweber@gmail.com https://mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/how-mexicos-greatest-author-defined-a-country-from-afar/comment-page-1/#comment-5378 Wed, 22 May 2024 21:06:27 +0000 https://mexiconewsdaily.com/?p=343515#comment-5378 In reply to Byron Lindsey.

Thank you Byron for sharing a personal anecdote!

]]> By: jarrettleinweber@gmail.com https://mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/how-mexicos-greatest-author-defined-a-country-from-afar/comment-page-1/#comment-5377 Wed, 22 May 2024 21:04:41 +0000 https://mexiconewsdaily.com/?p=343515#comment-5377 Labyrinth of Solitude is excellent. Arguably the best book to read to understand Mexico and Mexicans. I especially enjoyed the chapter about the Pachucos. Thanks, Montserrat! As a man of the left, I wonder what Paz would have to say about AMLOs militarization and efforts to erode the autonomy and power of Mexico’s important institutions…

]]> By: Miyagi https://mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/how-mexicos-greatest-author-defined-a-country-from-afar/comment-page-1/#comment-5369 Wed, 22 May 2024 16:21:36 +0000 https://mexiconewsdaily.com/?p=343515#comment-5369 In reply to Byron Lindsey.

Cool story!

]]> By: Byron Lindsey https://mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/how-mexicos-greatest-author-defined-a-country-from-afar/comment-page-1/#comment-5367 Wed, 22 May 2024 15:51:41 +0000 https://mexiconewsdaily.com/?p=343515#comment-5367 Octavio Paz was my “professor” at Cornell where I was a graduate student in 1967. He taught two classes as a visiting professor, and I took them both–Latin American literature and Poetry Writing. My notes, very thorough, are in my archive. Paz was both warm and distant at the same time. I got to know him and Marie Jose (they were inseparable) a bit personally by driving them to Rochester for a family lunch at Norman O. Brown’s house (he was a much touted philosopher of the time, Paz’s peer). He was a consummate poet intellectual and seemed detached from the “real world”, conscious of his reputation and talent. A bit lonely as if by choice. By this time only remotely political, certainly not involved in the fierce political scene of those years of the anti-Viet Nam war movement. He was a late modernist, bemused by contemporary life which he observed from his own private platform. Poetry and his own world mattered most.

]]> By: Robert Burns https://mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/how-mexicos-greatest-author-defined-a-country-from-afar/comment-page-1/#comment-5363 Wed, 22 May 2024 05:59:36 +0000 https://mexiconewsdaily.com/?p=343515#comment-5363 Thank you. He’s much more than a poet (all that my Spanish teacher mentioned of him).

]]> By: William https://mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/how-mexicos-greatest-author-defined-a-country-from-afar/comment-page-1/#comment-5362 Wed, 22 May 2024 03:32:01 +0000 https://mexiconewsdaily.com/?p=343515#comment-5362 Wow very interesting lm a Canadian
Will definitely read more about him
Thanks

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