Alternating Current by Octavio Paz

Alternating Current

Octavio Paz

200 pages first pub 1967 (view editions) user-added

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This book is for readers who like to linger over big, looping conversations about art, history, belief, and politics, all delivered in a calm, reflective haze that lets the mind wander and circle back. If you enjoy essays that make you pause, tilt your head, and feel quietly electrified by new angles on familiar questions, this one will sit well with you.

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In its front-page review of Alternating Current, The New York Times Book Review called Octavio Paz "an intellectual literary one-man band" for his ability to write incisively and with dazzling originality about a wide range of subjects. This colle...

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