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Octavio Paz
Birth date: March 31, 1914
Died: April 19, 1998
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Poetry
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Calyre
Calyre rated it 6 years ago
Notre mort illumine notre vie. Si notre mort manque de sens, c'est que notre vie en a manqué. C'est pourquoi, lorsque quelqu'un meurt de mort violente, nous disons seulement : "Il l'a cherché". Et il est vrai que chacun a la mort qu'il mérite, la mort qu'il fait. Mort de chrétien ou mort de chien so...
philoSophie
philoSophie rated it 8 years ago
Ζωή μισοïδωμένηΑστραπές ή ψάριαμες στη νύχτα της θάλασσαςκαι πουλιά, αστραπέςμες στη νύχτα του δάσους.Τα κόκαλά-μας αστραπέςμες στου κορμιού τη νύχτα.Τα πάντα, ω κόσμε, είναι νύχτακι είναι η ζωή αστραπή.Η ποίηση του Paz βρίθει ρεαλισμού, αποτυπώνει εικόνες καθημερινές, της φύσης ως παρθένα έκταση, χ...
Garden-of-Stars
Garden-of-Stars rated it 9 years ago
My high school IB history teacher was extremely passionate about history, so much that he would give out extra packages of notes on various events and figures associated with the time period we were studying that we most likely didn’t need to know. I remember Octavio Paz figuring in one of them, and...
Leopard
Leopard rated it 12 years ago
In this book Eliot Weinberger examines the difficulties inherent in translating classic Chinese poetry into Western languages by considering a special case in detail: he selects one poem by Wang Wei (699/701 - 761), romanizes it, gives a literal translation and then considers 16 different translator...
For the Love of Books
For the Love of Books rated it 12 years ago
I sweet story of the trials of having family with issues
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