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Octavio Paz


            
            
            
             In 1937 you attended the Congress of Antifascist Writers in Valencia (Spain) together with their wife, the Mexican writer Elena Garro. There it publishes Under your clear shade (1937). he/she Enters in contact with the intellectuals of the Spanish Republic, with Pablo Neruda, and in Mexico he/she comes closer to Jorge it Costs and Xavier Villaurrutia that would mark the development of their work. The same year it publishes in Mexico they won't happen! and man's Root. In 1939 on the world and Night of resurrections. With Efraín Vegetable garden, among other, it founds the magazine Shop. In 1944 with the scholarship Guggenheim one year passes in United States. In 1945 he/she enters to the Mexican External Service and he/she is a correspondent to Paris. Through the surrealist poet Benjamin Péret knows Breton André. Friend of Albert is made Camus and other European and Spanish American intellectuals from the Paris of the Postwar period. During the decade of 1950 it publishes four fundamental books: The labyrinth of the solitude (1950), I depict personal in the mirror of the Mexican society; The arch and the lira (1956), their more rigorous effort to elaborate a poetic one; Eagle or sun?, book of prose of surrealist influence, and Freedom low word. This last one includes the first of their long poems, Stone of sun, one of the big constructions of the Spanish American modernity. In 1951 it travels to the India and in 1952 to Japan. He/she returns to Mexico in 1953 where up to 1959 it develops an intense literary work. In 1960 he/she returns to Paris and in 1962 it returns to the India, as official of the Embassy of Mexico. He/she knows Marie José Tramini, with who marries in 1964. It publishes the books of poems Salamander (1961), previous to their trip to the India, and Hillside this that picks up their production in that country, and that it includes their second long poem, Blanco.


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