Itinerary: An Intellectual Journey

The final legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Labyrinth of Solitude

Itinerary records the evolution of the political ideas of Octavio Paz, the great Mexican writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. It is an intellectual autobiography, in a sense, but also a sentimental and even passionate one. In his thoughts Paz realized the past was inseparable from the present. And so he tells the story of his journey through time, from youth to adulthood. It is not a straight line, nor is it a circle; it is instead a spiral that turns ceaselessly over, bringing into view a time seventy years in the past and the actions of today. It is the final work by a great thinker and a magnificent writer.

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PRAISE FOR OCTAVIO PAZ

A brilliant stylist balancing the tension of East and West, art and criticism, the many and the one in the figures of his writing."-The Nation

A valuable overview of a distinguished career."-Publishers Weekly