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By J. King

ISBN-10: 0230609686

ISBN-13: 9780230609686

ISBN-10: 1403980780

ISBN-13: 9781403980786

The Mexican journal Plural (1971-1976) is a privileged vantage element from which to evaluate the advancements that remodeled Mexican and Latin American literary and political tradition within the 1970s.  Edited by means of the Nobel prize winner Octavio Paz at a time within which he used to be reassessing his political and nationalistic commitments, it featured the editorial partnership of a heterogeneous workforce of Mexican writers.  The publication bargains an in depth research of a extremely important second in Mexican cultural and political historical past, within the aftermath of the 1968 bloodbath of scholars in Tlatelolco, Mexico urban, at a time whilst a brand new president used to be trying to fix the fractured dating among intellectuals and the state.  crucial determine within the journal was once its editor Octavio Paz and the learn bargains a clean interpretation of the improvement of his political inspiration and inventive issues in arguably the main important and effective interval of his lifestyles.

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When Martínez refers to cultural supplements, he is thinking in particular of México en la Cultura, a weekly supplement to the newspaper Novedades, founded and edited by Fernando Benítez, that was issued between 1949 and 1961. When the conservative newspaper Novedades objected to the prorevolutionary stance taken by Benítez and his staff after 1959, Benítez resigned and took his group of writers across to the weekly journal Siempre! directed by José Pagés Llergo. A new supplement, La Cultura en México, would appear in that magazine throughout the sixties and seventies and would become an important focus for writers and critics.

44 In it there is mention of some of the defining moments of the period and an evocation of different cultural spaces. 129). It was César who would come up with the idea of producing poetic theater, Espacio poético (the movement Poesía en voz alta), to which he contributed translations of French avant garde poetry and a short theatrical piece of his own, based on a Hawthorne novel. This theatrical piece is introduced by a young writer Adalberto Arroyo (Carlos Fuentes), who works with Salazar in the Foreign Office.

19 Another important dimension to his time in Paris was his meeting with writers from all over Latin America. Paris in the aftermath of the war was once again a magnet for writers and artists: it became the meeting place for those whose previous point of contact had most likely been the pages of little magazines. 20 Paz took them along to see Breton, for by then, according to Szyszlo, “Octavio was one of the leading figures of cultural life in Paris. ”21 Even in his early thirties, Paz could be seen by Szyszlo as both an influential writer and intellectual and also as a bridge between Mexican, Latin American, North American, and European writers and artists.

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