A decoder of contemporary culture: Octavio Paz

Authors

  • Rafael Torres Sánchez Universidad de Guadalajara

Keywords:

decoder, culture, modernity, tradition.

Abstract

It is a question of an intensive Reading of Octavio Paz’s complete Works, exploring his incursions in diverse genres of objetivation artistic (the literatura, the painting, the sculpture and the photography, between others). The aim, apart from synthesizing the approximations of the poet and essayist to the problems of the modernity and the tradition, consits of acquainting tue reader with his ideas brings over the contemporary culture in West and in some oriental countries in wich he lived, studying the topics that fill his work

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References

Octavio Paz, “Días hábiles (1958-1961)”, OC, FCE, México, 2006, Vol. 11. Obra poética I, p. 267.

Octavio Paz, “En el filo del viento: México y Japón (Conversación con Tetsuji Yamamoto y Yumio Awa)”, OC, FCE, México, 2006, Vol. 8, p. 456.

Octavio Paz, “Preliminar”, OC, FCE, México, 2006, Vol. 11. Obra poética I, p. 17.

Octavio Paz, “La búsqueda del presente (Conferencia Nobel, 1990)”, OC, Vol. 3, pp. 35-36.

Octavio Paz, “Posiciones y contraposiciones: México y Estados Unidos”, OC, Vol. 8, p. 450.

Octavio Paz, “El camino de la pasión: Ramón López Velarde”, OC, FCE, 2001, Vol. 4, p. 211. “De noche mi corazón / conmigo mismo pelea –canta Lebrijano– / si eso se llama vivir / que venga Dios y lo vea”.

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Published

2025-11-14

How to Cite

Torres Sánchez, R. (2025). A decoder of contemporary culture: Octavio Paz. Sincronía, 19(68), 138–151. Retrieved from https://revistasincronia.cucsh.udg.mx/index.php/sincronia/article/view/828

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 68 (2015): July-December

Section

LETRAS

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