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Itinerary : an intellectual journey / Octavio Paz ; translated by Jason Wilson

By:

Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998

Contributor(s):

Wilson, Jason

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Harcourt , c1999.Description: 129 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780156010719

Uniform titles:

Itinerario . English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LAS 972.083 PAZ

LOC classification:

F1226 .P3213 2000

Summary: Itinerary is somewhat autobiographical, for it is the story of the evolution of my political ideas. An intellectual biography but also a sentimental and even passionate one: what I thought and think about my time is inseparable from what I felt and feel. Itinerary is the story and description of a journey through time, from one point to another, from my youth to my present moment. The line that traces this plan is neither straight nor circular but a spiral that turns back ceaselessly and ceaselessly distances itself from the point of departure. What we are living today brings me close to what I lived seventy years back and, simultaneously, irremediably and definitively distances me. Strange lesson: there is no turning back but there is no point of arrival. We are in transit. Itinerary is the final work of a great thinker and magnificent writer.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS 972.083 PAZ (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Material retirado/oculto del Opac		041916

Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-129).

Itinerary is somewhat autobiographical, for it is the story of the evolution of my political ideas. An intellectual biography but also a sentimental and even passionate one: what I thought and think about my time is inseparable from what I felt and feel. Itinerary is the story and description of a journey through time, from one point to another, from my youth to my present moment. The line that traces this plan is neither straight nor circular but a spiral that turns back ceaselessly and ceaselessly distances itself from the point of departure. What we are living today brings me close to what I lived seventy years back and, simultaneously, irremediably and definitively distances me. Strange lesson: there is no turning back but there is no point of arrival. We are in transit. Itinerary is the final work of a great thinker and magnificent writer.

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