- Paperback: 560 pages
- Publisher: Harvard University Press; Reprint edition (1 July 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0674821068
- ISBN-13: 978-0674821064
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 16 x 3.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 282,409 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Sor Juana displays an extraordinary sweep of imagination and intelligence, and it is many things: a biography, a critical study, a re-creation of an era, a meditation on Mexican history, a dialogue of poet with poet, a reflection on the role of the intellectual in the modern world. -- Michael Wood New York Review of Books An admiring and sympathetic portrait, but an honest and demythologizing one, too...The Sor Juana Mr. Paz renders is irreducible to labels--saint, iconoclast, virago, feminist, neurotic. Her life, like the Viceregal culture that formed her and was formed by her, was brilliant, flawed and complex. She argued passionately for sexual equality and intellectual freedom, yet championed the same orthodoxies with which she struggled. -- Frederick Luciani New York Times Book Review A sweeping and volcanic panorama. -- Richard Eder Los Angeles Times Book Review
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The amazing life of Sor Juana
26 Mar 2000
Format:Hardcover
This book by the Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz is a great account of the life of one of the best writers of Hispanic literature. Sor Juana created astonishing poems about life, love, and people. It is a pity that only little is known about the facts of her life. As with Shakespeare, must of what we know about her comes from her literary legacy. Octavio Paz is able to solve some of the mystery that surrounds Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Sor Juana--17th century genius
15 July 2007
Format:Paperback
This is a balanced, penetrating examination of Sor Juana and the elements that shaped her life. She understood that her passion was the pursuit of knowledge and that she could never fulfill her life's work unless she became a nun. In addition to describing Sor Juana Paz enlightens his readers about the masculine society into which she was born. She was a brave, talented woman who spoke up for what she believed in.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Sor Juana Come To Life
1 Dec 2008
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
She winds up caught up in the "Traps of Faith" as Paz refers to the traps sprung by her time and lifetime which doomed her to a shortened life-span and an end to her excellant writings from poetry to prose to drama along with an end to her library filled with books and tomes from her time. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz is inspirational as a poetess in particular and Paz salutes this woman with his hefty biography filling in the blanks as to the influences that surrounded and imbued Sor Juana with her colourful figures and joyous sufferings that inspired her to dig for gold in the mines of the baroque affectations of her time. For SorJuanistas a must have-- and you know who you are-- for those unaquainted with Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz-- you'll find out how much you are missing.
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