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_aLAS 868 PAZ _2 |
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_aPaz, Octavio _d(1914-1998) |
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_aThe monkey grammarian _c/ Octavio Paz ; translated from the Spanish by Helen R. Lane |
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_aNew York _b: Seaver Books _c, 1981 |
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_a340 p. _c; 21 cm. |
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520 | 3 | _aThis 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? | |
546 | _aTranslated from the Spanish to English. | ||
650 | 4 | _aMythology, Hindu | |
700 | 1 | _aLane, Helen R. | |
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