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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Wilson, Jason, 1944-

Standardized Title:

Itinerario. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Mexico--Politics and government.

Mexico.

Politics and government.

Latin America.

Europe.

Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998.

Paz, Octavio.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

129 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt, [1999]

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. 5-5/16 X 8.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-129).

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0151005621

OCLC:

43787107