It was in 1990 that Paz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for "impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity." Paz died of cancer in 1998. In 1977, Paz was awarded the prestigious Jerusalem Prize for literature and in 1982 he was awarded the Neustadt Prize. From 1970 to 1974 Paz lectured at Harvard University, where he was made an honorary doctor in 1980. In 1945 Paz became a Mexican diplomat and moved to Paris, where he would write his masterpiece The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950), a collection of nine essays regarding the Mexican identity. Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is. The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end. In 1943 Paz received a Guggenheim Fellowship and he moved to the United States in order to study at the University of California, where he stayed for two years. By Octavio Paz, Octavio Paz, Octavio Paz, Octavio Paz, Octavio Paz, ISBN: 9780802150424, Paperback. The universal aloneness of all mankind is his basic theme, for solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition, and with remarkable acumen he studies the Mexican manifestations of this universal ill in a series of nine essays. Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. His family was forced into exile, which they served in the United States, after the assassination of Mexican president Zapata, in 1919. The Nobel Prize-winning OCTAVIO PAZ was born in 1914, near Mexico City.
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