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“indranil chakravarty”

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  • The Tree Within

    The Mexican Nobel Laureate writer Octavio Paz’s Years in India.

    by Indranil Chakravarty ...
    The Tree Within is the enchanting story of Octavio Paz’s passionate love-affair with India where he served as Mexico’s ambassador in the 1960s. Immersing himself in the country’s rich cultural life and contemplative traditions, Paz travelled widely, forged deep friendships with some of India’s finest minds, and produced several of his most inspired poetry and essays. It was here that he met the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (Book Analysis)

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  • The Courage for Truth

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  • Neruda

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  • Frida Kahlo

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    Series Book 50 - Critical Lives
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  • Aztec Thought and Culture

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    by Miguel León-Portilla ...
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    For at least two millennia before the advent of the Spaniards in 1519, there was a flourishing civilization in central Mexico. During that long span of time a cultural evolution took place which saw a high development of the arts and literature, the formulation of complex religious doctrines, systems of education, and diverse political and social organization.The rich documentation concerning ... Read more

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  • Redeemers

    Ideas and Power in Latin America

    by Enrique Krauze ...
    In Redeemers, acclaimed historian Enrique Krauze presents the major ideas that have formed the modern Latin American political mind during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries—and looks closely at how these ideas were expressed in the lives of influential revolutionaries, thinkers, poets, and novelists. Here are the Cuban José Martí; the Argentines Che Guevara and Evita Perón; political ... Read more

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  • The Siren and the Seashell

    And Other Essays on Poets and Poetry

    by Octavio Paz ...
    Translated by Lysander Kemp, Margaret Sayers Peden ...
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    Octavio Paz has long been known for his brilliant essays as well as for his poetry. Through the essays, he has sought to confront the tensions inherent in the conflict between art and society and to achieve a unity of their polarities. The Siren and the Seashell is a collection of Paz's essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general. The first five poets he treats are Latin American ... Read more

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  • Octavio Paz

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    When Octavio Paz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, it was in recognition of the fact that for many years he had been the pre-eminent poet in the Spanish speaking world. His work takes the traditions of Mexican poetry as well as French and Spanish influences, and adds what he himself read of his contemporaries in Mexico, Britain and France, in particular, the Surrealists. But Paz was also ... Read more

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  • From the Monastery to the World

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  • Modern Latin American Literature

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    This Very Short Introduction chronicles the trends and traditions of modern Latin American literature, arguing that Latin American literature developed as a continent-wide phenomenon, not just an assemblage of national literatures, in moments of political crisis. With the Spanish American War came Modernismo, the end of World War I and the Mexican Revolution produced the avant-garde, and the Cuban ... Read more

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