Perales on Octavio Paz & Friends
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Octavio Paz fue uno de los intelectuales más importantes de su tiempo; poeta, ensayista y editor, recibió el premio nobel en 1990. Con motivo del centenario de su natalicio (1914), el doctor Jaime Perales estuvo en Washington para presentar su libro: Octavio Paz y su círculo intelectual, en el que nos habla de esta importante figura de las letras mexicanas. Pero también de sus alianzas políticas y de la relación con otros importantes escritores como Pablo Neruda, Efraín Huerta y Elena Garro, solo por mencionar. HC aprovechó la visita del autor de esta biografía y hablo con autor de este libro en el Instituto Cultural de México donde se llevó a cabo la presentación.
While he’s best known for winning Nobel Prize for literature in 1990, Mexican poet Octavio Paz was also a prolific essayist, art critic, and political gadfly. He had a long career as a Mexican diplomat, which came to an abrupt end in 1968 when he resigned from his post as Mexico’s ambassador to India in protest over what came to be known as the Tlatelolco Massacre. This bloody confrontation with student protesters left a large death toll (estimates ranged from dozens to hundreds) and many more wounded or disappeared. He also hung out with some of the most accomplished artists and intellectuals of his times–playwright Samuel Beckett, poets Pablo Neruda and Efraín Huerta, and Paz’s first wife and an acclaimed writer in her own right, Elena Garro.
This year marks 100 years since Paz’s birth. As part of centennial festivities, Georgetown University-educated biographer Dr. Jaime Perales was at the Mexican Cultural Institute last week to read from his book, “Octavio Paz y su círculo intelectual.” Published last year by Ediciones Coyoacán-ITAM, it’s a finalist for Spain’s XX Premio Internacional Comillas de Biografía e Historia.
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