Monkey Grammarian (eBook)

Octavio Paz (Autor)

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2017
176 Seiten
Arcade Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62872-775-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz offers a dazzling exploration of the origin of language.

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Nobel Prizewinner Octavio Paz offers a dazzling mind journey to the sources of poetry. Poet, diplomat, writer, philosopher, hailed as an intellectual literary one-man band by the New York Times Book Review, Nobel Prizewinner Octavio Paz was a key figure in the Latin American Literary Renaissance and in world literature. In this entrancing work, part prose-poem and part rumination on the origins of language and the antic, erotic, sacred nature of poetry, Paz takes inspiration from Hanuman, the red-faced monkey chief and ninth grammarian of Hindu mythology. On a journey to the temple city of Galta in Indiawhich Paz finds partially ruined in a leaf-filled countryside surrounded by forbidding hillsHanumans mythical encounters serve as the springboard for the poets speculations on all manners of things, from movement and fixity to meaning and identity, the reality behind language, and the nature of nature. Images of the holy city, complete with the marauding monkeys for which it is known, constantly obtrude on his musings. Perhaps the most poetic of Pazs prose works, The Monkey Grammarian is visual: every page is rich in images, of palaces and temples, pilgrims and sadhus, and the monkey god himself. Pazs probing, crystalline prose makes this an unforgettable voyage of the mind.

Autor

Octavio Paz was born in 1914 in Mexico City and served as the Mexican ambassador to India from 1962 to 1968. He was the author of many volumes of poetry as well as literary and art criticism and works on politics, culture, and Mexican history. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, he was also awarded the Jerusalem Prize, the Cervantes Prize, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the German Peace Prize. He died in 1998.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.7.2017
• Einführung: Ilan Stavans
• Übersetzer: Helen R. Lane
• Zusatzinfo: 29 B&W illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 13th century • arberry • auf zu • baal shem • barks' translations • bedside table • Bilingual • Bo • books on english poetries • books on maria rilkes • books on rainer marias • books on rilke's poems • books on stephen mitchell • books on translating poetries • Cheryl Strayed • coleman barks • convoluted dream • creative non-fiction • deeper meaning • dervishes • divine • Duino Elegies • english poetry • english translations • fixity • german original • German poetry • Grammarian • Hanuman • hirshfield • Human Experience • India • jalal al-din • Konya • Libro • literal translations • maggid • Malte • maria rilke • merwin • mitchell's translations • Modern Poetry • Mystic • Mystical • neruda's poetry • nonfiction class • Orpheus • pablo neruda creative nonfiction • particular spiritual • Penis • Persian • Poemas • poetry speaks • poetry translated • poets • Rainer Maria • rilke's poems • rilke's poetry • Robert Bly • robert hass • Rumi • rumi's life • rumi's poetry • saddest lines • shams • Sharon Olds • stephen mitchell • Sufi • Sufism • translate poetry books on literal translations • Translating Poetry • Translators • veces
• ISBN-10: 1-62872-775-6 / 1628727756
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62872-775-3 / 9781628727753