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DOCUMENTARY: THE LABYRINTH OF OCTAVIO PAZ Opening remarks by Adriana de Teresa Ochoa, PhD in Literature from the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras at UNAM
IN SPANISH ONLY - NOT TRANSLATION AVAILABLE
Before the screening there will be a talk with Adriana de Teresa Ochoa, PhD in Literature from the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras at UNAM.
Dr. Adriana de Teresa Ochoa holds a PhD in Literature from the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras at UNAM. She is a full time professor in the Department of Hispanic Literature in the area of literary theory and is the author of Octavio Paz 1931-1943: Genesis of a romantic poetry (2009). She currently coordinates a research project on contemporary figurations of the author.
This new documentary reviews the work and trajectory of the Mexican poet and essayist (1914-1998), with testimonies of 25 great experts, among them writers Mario Vargas Llosa, Jorge Edwards, Hugo Hiriart, Elena Poniatowska and Alberto Ruy Sánchez; the poets Pere Gimferrer, Ida Vitale and Jean-Clarence Lambert, first translator of Paz to the French; the essayists Juan Villoro, Juan Malpartida and Christopher Domínguez Michael; the Sanscritists Óscar Pujol and Juan Arnau; art critics Juan Manuel Bonet and Fernando Castro Flórez; the painter Vicente Rojo; the Chinese Hispanist Shihua He, as well as Hans Meinke, editor of the complete works of the Mexican writer.
The documentary offers a broad vision of the production of an author who always affirmed that the true biography of a poet is not in the events of his life, but in his work. But he also gives special attention to fundamental episodes of his life: the years he lived in India, where he served as Ambassador of Mexico between 1962 and 1968 and wrote some of the major works. The visit to Spain in 1937 to attend the International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture, or the stunning meeting with Marie José, first in Delhi and then in Paris.
Screenplay and direction: José María Martínez, production: Adela Iriarte. Instituto Cervantes, 2016, 85 min. In Spanish without English subtitles.
The event is a collaboration between the Instituto Cervantes and UNAM in Chicago with the kind support of the Consulate General of Mexico in Chicago.
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LocationInstituto Cervantes of Chicago (View)
31 W Ohio
Chicago, IL 60203
United States
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