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The Mexican's Quest Viewed Through The Eyes Of Octavio Paz In El Laberinto De La Soledad, Lois Marie Hunter

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Although the purpose of this study is to concentrate on an analysis of Paz’s book of essays, El laberinto de la soledad, published in 1950 and revised and expanded in 1959, this writer feels that it would be in order to give a summary-listing of his poetry and other works. The reader will thus not only be able to follow the events of the author’s life, but he will also be able to grasp the details of his development as a writer and to understand his purpose in writing El laberinto de la soledad.