One earth, four or five worlds : reflections on contemporary history
/ Octavio Paz ; translated by Helen R. Lane.
- 1st ed.
- San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , c1985.
- ix, 213 p. ; 22 cm.
Translation of: Tiempo nublado. With 3 added essays.
Includes bibliographical references.
Written with a poet's sensibility and a diplomat's sense of history, these essays view a contemporary world poised between the upheaval of the 1960s and the uncertainties of the 1980s. "Essays at once eloquent and slashing, urgent and erudite" (Publishers Weekly). Translated by Helen Lane.