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This book writen by Roberto Sanchez has an academic purpose but - above all - a tone that invites distant readers from the university world to follow the route of travelers that the author has unintentionally structured. It is not a book for tourists, it is for adventurers. It is an update of the thought and action of a universal Mexican poet installed in modernity to which he devoted so many pages to grasp it. Octavio Paz was not a courteous Mexican who avoided debate or confront. Unlike the good and very fine manners of Alfonso Reyes, Paz stood up in the face of circumstances and exposed, debated, criticized. Asking permission was not part of his temper. With his book, Roberto Sanchez -a passionate about the work of a poet- acts as a gambusino so as not to leave the universal streaks of an essential Mexican in the Spanish language without light. -- Raul Mejia The poet reveals from the unspoken; he is always thinking about something else, his true being is elsewhere, he is nobody, none, but he is everyone and everything, he looks at and writes with passion: the passion for language, the language of passion, because the powers of the word are not different from those of passion. This is the spirit that runs through the pages of this wooded book, sometimes intricate, sometimes flat, but always bright and pleasant, around the labyrinths of being and the surreal influence on the work of Octavio Paz, undoubtedly the poet who has fully exercised the freedom of the poetic thinking in Mexican poetry. The skillful and documented essay by Roberto Sanchez Benitez manages to unravel in Octavio Paz the condition so dear to Osip Mandelstam that the poet, the true poet, is always a disturber of meaning. -- Jorge Bustamante Garcia Thorough, sensitive, by the hand of his philosophical knowledge and his attraction to literature - his way of doing philosophy -, with a broad understanding of the work of the author who is the subject of this book, Roberto Sanchez Benitez makes clear the magnetic fields with which Octavio Paz shaped his ideas about the poem as a site of contradictions, about poetry in society, poetry as a critique of society, about being and its freedoms: ontology and surrealism. Sanchez Benitez imposed himself on reading a work whose author, eager to establish a relationship with the other, the other, placed himself in a large discussion with a long horizon: a poet of his time, to whom one must always return. -- Carlos Gutierrez Alfonzo, CIMSUR, UNAM, Chiapas Mexico

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Roberto Sanchez Benitez is professor-researcher at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez

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