In Search of the Present - 1990 Nobel Lecture

The speech delivered by Paz in acceptance of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature, in which he discusses gratitude, separateness, and modernity. Published in a handsome bilingual edition. Translated by Anthony Stanton.

About the author

Octavio Paz was born in 1914 and died in 1998. The author of eighteen books, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.

Summary

The speech delivered by Paz in acceptance of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature, in which he discusses gratitude, separateness, and modernity. Published in a handsome bilingual edition. Translated by Anthony Stanton.

Product details

• Authors: PAZ, Octavio Paz
• Assisted by: Anthony Stanton (Translation)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1991
• EAN: 9780156445566
• ISBN: 978-0-15-644556-6
• No. of pages: 72
• Weight: 4531 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Literary Figures, LITERARY CRITICISM: Poetry, POETRY: Women Authors, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Rich & Famous, LITERARY CRITICISM: Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM: Short Stories, POETRY: Haiku *, LITERARY CRITICISM: European / Spanish & Portuguese, LITERARY CRITICISM: European / General, POETRY: European / Spanish & Portuguese