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One earth, four or five worlds : reflections on contemporary history / Octavio Paz ; translated by Helen R. Lane.
LIBRA D842.5 .P3913 1986 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998
- Standardized Title:
- Tiempo nublado. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- History, Modern--1945-1989.
- History, Modern.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- ix, 213 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Harvest/HBJ edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- A bird's-eye view of the old world
- Imperial democracy
- The totalitarian empire
- Revolt and resurrection
- Mutations
- The telltale mirror
- Latin America and democracy
- The contaminations of contingency
- Peace and democracy.
- Notes:
- "A Harvest/HBJ book."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Translation of: Tiempo nublado. With 3 added essays.
- ISBN:
- 0156687461
- 9780156687461
- OCLC:
- 14962937
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