The Life of the Characters in Octavio Paz's Works

Octavio Paz was born in Mexico City in 19 14. My father is a journalist and lawyer. He is the representative of Emiliano Zapata, a famous general in the Mexican Revolution, in new york. My mother is a descendant of Spanish immigrants and a devout Catholic. My grandfather is a journalist and writer, and my grandmother is an Indian. Pass spent his childhood in such an environment full of freedom and religion. Pass began to study at the age of five and received English and French education. /kloc-entered the department of philosophy and literature and the department of law of the University of Mexico at the age of 0/4, and read a lot of works by classical and modernist poets. Later, it was influenced by Spanish "27th generation" and French surrealist poetry style.

193 1 started literary creation and co-founded railing magazine. Two years later, the Mexico Valley Manual was established. At that time, he was very interested in philosophy and politics and read a lot of works with Marxist tendencies.

1937, he founded a middle school in Yucatani Island, where he discovered desert, poverty and great Mayan culture. Between the stone and the flower. In the same year, he went to Spain to attend the congress of anti-fascist writers and met the most outstanding poets in Spain and Latin America at that time. "In Your Clear Shadow and Other Spanish Poetry" was published there. After returning to Mexico, Paz actively participated in the rescue of Spanish exiles and founded the magazines Workshop and Prodigal Son. 1944 went to the United States for study. He started his diplomatic work from 65438 to 0945, and successively served in Mexican embassies in France, Switzerland, Japan and India.

From 1953 to 1959, he returned to China to engage in literary creation. Then he returned to Paris and New Delhi until 1968 resigned as the ambassador to India to protest against his government's suppression of the student movement. Since then, he has devoted himself to literary creation, academic research and speeches. In translation and re-creation (1973), he translated the works of some poets in the Tang and Song Dynasties in China. Pass's poetry and prose have the characteristics of blending Europe and America, connecting East and West, learning from others and being unique.

1962 to 1968, Paz was appointed as the ambassador to India by the Mexican government. From then on, he began to explore oriental culture, study Indian Buddhist thought and China's theory of Yin and Yang. 1969 published poetry anthology "East Hillside". His creative path is colorful, involving surrealism, idealism, existentialism, symbolism and structuralism.

He won 1963 Belgian International Poetry Award, 198 1 Spanish Cervantes Literature Award, and 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature because "his works are full of excitement, broad vision, permeated with the wisdom of perception, and embodied perfect humanitarianism". He is also an honorary doctor awarded by Boston University, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Harvard University and new york University.