«Octavio Paz in Cambridge, 1970. Reflections and Iterations»

Abstract

In this work we witness a dimension of Octavio Paz’s world and his personal
and cultural life that is sometimes forgotten by theorists: the poet’s
relationship with the English-Speaking world, and his stay in Cambridge.
From the testimonies and the narration of a story — intimate in tone
and form — which, although it is far from a strictly academic tone, does
not fail to provide us with valuable information in this regard; in the present
article we enter fully into the experiences, knowledge and reflections
that /we can extract from this period of Octavio Paz’s life, questioning
always burning issues such as the difficulty of a writer to educate
himself in a linguistic context that is not his own, or how all literatures
— despite the original differences in their origins and the remoteness
of their projections — are, in reality, a whole that is much more similar
than it might seem at first.