Book Tips - Octavio Paz

Deep and beautiful exploration of loop arguments.
/Carlos Hidaglo, United Kingdom

Among Paz poetry this is the most outstanding. History, culture, philosophy, all in a single book. I didn't read much poetry but this book made me want to read more. It includes one of Paz lonest and finest poems: 'Sun Stone' a masterpiece of poetry. Paz likes to explore a new language trough the freedom of new words.
/Daniel Michel, Mexico

It's a detailed portrait of a wonderful woman and poet in colonial Mexico and interesting essay on the birth of a nation.
/Roberto Marmolejo, Mexico

It is a portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican writer, and her times. Also it is a good introduction for other Octavio Paz's books, like 'The Labyrinth of Solitude' and his poetry.
/Luis Alfonso Rivera, Mexico

He has a breathtaking poetic voice.
/Rachel Whitlock, United States

It is an amazing, lucid and profound analysis of the nature of Mexican idiosincrasy. Kind of a psycoanálisis of our Mexican colective unconsciousness. Written about 60 years ago it conserves its validity.
/Leopoldo Gatica, Mexico

Because this book is very important to search our origins like Mexican and Latin-American people, and find our destiny inside the world ...
/Carlos Emir Arellano, Mexico

I loved the way he wrote.
/Paola Paz, Mexico

The book is just amazing. Octavio Paz writes about Mexican history and Mexican culture, but, at the same time, he shows us, in a deep way, the fragile of humans and the weakness of Man. He says, that the Mexicans love parties because they are lonely, but we see ourselves in those Mexicans, we are the lonelies.
/Matheus, Brazil

Just an amazing way to get to know the Mexican culture and the Mexican figure by what it really is, a complex character that has developed little by little and has been influenced by its history and its roots. Anyone who is interested in knowing not only the Mexican figure but the effort to understand a culture itself.
/Carla Aguilar, Mexico

Because he talks about Mexico and his people.
/Alberto Garza García, Mexico

Because it is a clear reflect of Mexican culture. But if you are not Mexican, you may enjoy the context, language and literary creations of the author.
/Yadira Palacios, Mexico

Is a great book not only for Mexicans or Latin Americans, for all the world, because it tells us why do we have certain behaviors in our life.
/Jaime Cervantes, Mexico

For his words and many other tellings about Mexican people.
/Jose Angel Lopez, Mexico

Having re-read his work in light of a broader experiential social context than my younger reactionary days, it has a persistent truth beyond the regionalistic, it is rather, existential. O. Paz describes what psychologist today name a 'narcissistic disorder', the fragmented self, really, the problem of post-modern society. The general society today is experiencing this depleted self.
/Joel, United States

It's a great novel specially if you are Hispanic. This book gives you different perspectives of how people think of Mexico's culture. It's a full context of Mexico's history. It gives you an idea of how people think when they are raised in the United States. There is definitely two different worlds between Mexico and the USA I would recommend it to anybody who is eager to find out history about Mexico. Its contents are from time ago to the present life.
/Yesenia, United States