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The Consulate General of Mexico in Toronto and the Latin American Studies (Munk Centre for International Studies) of the University of Toronto will be hosting a "Reading the Poetry of Octavio Paz", to mark the tenth anniversary of the death of the Nobel Prize-winning Mexican writer.
Reading in English: Eva-Lynn Jagoe, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto.
Reading in Spanish and synopsis of the intellectual life of Octavio Paz: Gerardo Ochoa Sandy, Cultural Attaché of Consulate General of Mexico in Toronto.
WHEN: Friday, April 11th 2008, 6:00 pm
WHERE: Upper Library and Common Room, Massey College, University of Toronto, 4 Devonshire Place, Toronto (close St. George subway station).
Octavio Paz is a poet and an essayist. He began to write at an early age, and in 1937, he travelled to Valencia, Spain, to participate in the Second International Congress of Anti-Fascist Writers. In 1943, he travelled to the USA on a Guggenheim Fellowship where he became immersed in Anglo-American Modernist poetry; two years later, he entered the Mexican diplomatic service and was sent to France, where he wrote his fundamental study of Mexican identity, The Labyrinth of Solitude, and actively participated (together with Andre Breton and Benjamin Peret) in various activities and publications organized by the surrealists.
Some of his essays: El Laberinto de la Soledad (1950), El Arco y la Lira (1957), Cuadrivio (1964) Puertas al Campo (1966), Corriente Alterna (1967), Claude Levi Stratuss o el nuevo Festín de Esopo (1967), Marcel Duchamp o el Castillo de la Pureza (1968), Conjunciones y Disyunciones (1969), Posdata (1970), El Ogro Filantrópico (1979) and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o las Trampas de la Fe" (1982).
Some of his poems: "Luna Silvestre" (1937), "Condición de Nube" (1944), "El Girasol" (1948), "Puerta condenada" (1946), "Aguila o Sol" (1950), "Semillas para un Himno" (1954), "Poemas Últimos" (1955), “Piedra de sol” (1957), "La Estación Violenta" (1958), "Libertad bajo palabra" (1958), "Salamandra" (1962),"Ladera Este " (1969), “Pasado en claro” (1975), "Vuelta" (1976), "Poemas" (1979), "Raíz de un Hombre" and "Arbol Adentro"(1987).
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