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The monkey grammarian / Octavio Paz ; translated from the Spanish by Helen R. Lane

By:

Paz, Octavio, (1914-1998)

Contributor(s):

Lane, Helen R

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Seaver Books , 1981Description: 340 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

0394178092

Subject(s):

Mythology, Hindu

DDC classification:

LAS 868 PAZ

Abstract: This is a dazzling mind-journey to the temple city of Galta. Hanuman, the red-faced monkey god and ninth grammarian of Hindu mythology, is the protagonist, offering an occasion for Octavio Paz to explore the nature of time and reality, fixity and decay, and the question whether language and grammar are god-given, or an invention of man with powers borrowed from the divine realm?

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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 868 PAZ (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		005552

This is a dazzling mind-journey to the temple city of Galta. Hanuman, the red-faced monkey god and ninth grammarian of Hindu mythology, is the protagonist, offering an occasion for Octavio Paz to explore the nature of time and reality, fixity and decay, and the question whether language and grammar are god-given, or an invention of man with powers borrowed from the divine realm?

Translated from the Spanish to English.

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