Itinerary

From the Nobel Prize-winning essayist and poet, a memoir - the story of the evolution of Octavio Paz's political ideas. "Itinerary is somewhat autobiographical, for it is the story of the evolution of my political ideas. An intellectual biography but also a sentimental and even passionate one: wh [...]
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From the Nobel Prize-winning essayist and poet, a memoir - the story of the evolution of Octavio Paz's political ideas. "Itinerary is somewhat autobiographical, for it is the story of the evolution of my political ideas. An intellectual biography but also a sentimental and even passionate one: what I thought and think about my time is inseparable from what I felt and feel. Itinerary is the story and description of a journey through time, from one point to another, from my youth to my present moment. The line that traces this plan is neither straight nor circular but a spiral that turns back ceaselessly and ceaselessly distances itself from the point of departure. What we are living today brings me close to what I lived seventy years back and, simultaneously, irremediably and definitively distances me. Strange lesson: there is no turning back but there is no point of arrival. We are in transit." Itinerary is the final work of a great thinker and magnificent writer.
About the Author:Octavio Paz was born in 1914 and died in 1998. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990 and is the author of The Labyrinth of Solitude. Charles Tomlinson is a leading British poet and translator.
Jason Wilson is a professor of Latin American Literature at University College, London.