Octavio Paz A Meditation Author:Ilan Stavans In this small, memorable meditation on Octavio Paz as a thinker and man of action, Ilan Stavans-described by the Washington Post as "one of our foremost cultural critics"-ponders the Nobel Prize laureate's intellectual courage against the ideological tapestry of his epoch and shows us what lessons can be learned from him. Stavans explores such t... more »opics as the crossroads where literature and politics meet, the place of criticism in society, and Mexico's difficult quest to come to terms with its own history.« less