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082 1 _aLAS 868 PAZ
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100 1 _aPaz, Octavio
_d(1914-1998)
245 1 3 _aThe monkey grammarian
_c/ Octavio Paz ; translated from the Spanish by Helen R. Lane
260 _aNew York
_b: Seaver Books
_c, 1981
300 _a340 p.
_c; 21 cm.
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.
942 _cLAS
999 _c225929
_d225929