The Double Flame

The Double Flame

Essays on Love & Eroticism

Summary

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

About the author

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz, celebrated poet, diplomat and essayist, was born in 1914 in Mexico City. He began to write at an early age and went on to become a critic and translator, teaching at Cambridge and Harvard Universities. He also served as a diplomat and was Mexican ambassador to France and India. Alongside Pablo Neruda and Jorge Luis Borges, Paz's work has influenced the politics and culture both of his own country and of the world. He received the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1981, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990. He died in 1998.
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