It was in 1990 that Paz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for "impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity." Paz died of cancer in 1998. In 1977, Paz was awarded the prestigious Jerusalem Prize for literature and in 1982 he was awarded the Neustadt Prize. From 1970 to 1974 Paz lectured at Harvard University, where he was made an honorary doctor in 1980. In 1945 Paz became a Mexican diplomat and moved to Paris, where he would write his masterpiece The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950), a collection of nine essays regarding the Mexican identity. In 1943 Paz received a Guggenheim Fellowship and he moved to the United States in order to study at the University of California, where he stayed for two years. His family was forced into exile, which they served in the United States, after the assassination of Mexican president Zapata, in 1919. Then the doors of perception open slightly and the other time appears, the real one we were searching for without knowing it: the present, the presence.The Nobel Prize-winning OCTAVIO PAZ was born in 1914, near Mexico City. We want to trap it alive but it flaps its wings and vanishes in the form of a handful of syllables. It is the instant, that bird that is everywhere and nowhere. We embrace her and she disappears immediately: it was just a little air.
She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight.
We pursue modernity in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. A simultaneous plurality of time and presence: modernity breaks with the immediate past only to recover an age-old past and transform a tiny fertility figure from the neolithic into our contemporary. This intact present, recently unearthed, shakes off the dust of centuries, smiles and suddenly starts to fly, disappearing through the window. It speaks in Nahuatl, draws Chinese ideograms from the 9th century, and appears on the television screen. The Labyrinth Of Solitude ( Penguin Modern Classics) Octavio Paz, The Restless DeadDEBORAH NOYES, PENNSYLVANIA TEST PREP Reading Workbook PSSA Reading Grade 2Test Master Press Pennsylvania, Mortiswood Kaelia Awakening (Mortiswood Tales)Gina Dickerson, Sociology: A Students IntroductionLester C.
It is today and the most ancient antiquity it is tomorrow and the beginning of the world it is a thousand years old and yet newborn. I returned to the source and discovered that modernity is not outside but within us. “In this pilgrimage in search of modernity I lost my way at many points only to find myself again.
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