The Double Flame: Essays on Love & Eroticism
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Double Flame: Essays on Love & Eroticism
By (Author) Octavio Paz
Vintage Publishing
The Harvill Press
15th November 2010
27th April 2010
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literary studies: general
Sex and sexuality, social aspects
809.933538
Physical Properties
Paperback
256
Width 136mm, Height 219mm, Spine 15mm
247g
Description
A discourse on the connection between sex, eroticism and love in literature by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist.
Reviews
Octavio Paz is one of the great European cultural icons of the 20th century before whom we all perforce bow down and worship. -- Richard Gott * Guardian *
Author Bio
The celebrated poet and essayist, Octavio Paz was born in 1914 in Mexico City. Paz began to write at an early age, and in 1937, travelled to Valencia, Spain, to participate in the Second International Congress of Anti-Fascist Writers. His illustrious career led to him being awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1998.
