Octavio Paz has long been known for his brilliant essays as well as for his poetry. Through the essays, he has sought to confront the tensions inherent in the conflict between art and society and to achieve a unity of their polarities. The Siren and the Seashell is a collection of Paz's essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general. The first five poets he treats are Latin American: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rubén Darío, José Juan Tablada, Ramón López Velarde, and Alfonso ...

Toward the close of the last century, the poetry of the Spanish-speaking world was pallid, feeble, almost a corpse. It needed new life and a new direction. The exotic, erratic, revolutionary poet who changed the course of Spanish poetry and brought it into the mainstream of twentieth-century Modernism was Flix Rubn Garca Sarmiento (1867-1916) of Nicaragua, who called himself Rubn Daro. Since its original publication in 1965, this edition of Daro's poetry has made English-speaking readers bett...

Handpicked works from the greatest Argentinian writer of the twentieth century. "Without Borges the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist" (Carlos Fuentes, author and diplomat).After almost a half a century of scrupulous devotion to his art, Jorge Luis Borges personally compiled this anthology of his work—short stories, essays, poems, and brief mordant "sketches," which, in Borges's hands, take on the dimensions of a genre unique in m...

Born in Nicaragua, Rubén Darío is known as the consummate leader of the Modernista movement, an esthetic trend that swept the Americas from Mexico to Argentina at the end of the nineteenth century. Seeking a language and a style that would distinguish the newly emergent nations from the old imperial power of Spain, Darío’s writing offered a refreshingly new vision of the world—an artistic sensibility at once cosmopolitan and connected to the rhythms of nature. The first part of this collec...

“These brief Ficciones have to be read one at a time, and slowly; then they throb with uncanny and haunting power.” —The Atlantic MonthlyThe seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century.Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sph...

️ A knight. A donkey. A dream too big for the world to understand. Don Quixote is widely regarded as the first modern novel and one of the greatest works of world literature. Written by Miguel de Cervantes in the early 17th century, this epic tale follows Alonso Quixano, a man so obsessed with tales of chivalry that he renames himself Don Quixote and sets out to revive knight-errantry—tilting at windmills, battling imaginary giants, and proclaiming justice across Spain. ️ A hilarious a...

Like other great nineteenth century novels--The Scarlet Letter, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary--Machado de Assis's Dom Casmurro explores the themes of marriage and adultery. But what distinguishes Machado's novel and what makes it such a delightful discovery for English-speaking readers, is its eccentric and wildly unpredictable narrative style. As he recounts the events of his life from the vantage of a lonely old age, the narrator Bento continually interrupts his story to reflect on the wr...

In its front-page review of Alternating Current, The New York Times Book Review called Octavio Paz “an intellectual literary one-man band” for his ability to write incisively and with dazzling originality about a wide range of subjects. This collection of his essays is divided into three parts. Part 1 sets forth his credo as an artist and poet, steeped in his knowledge of world literature and Mexican art and history and buttressed by readings of writers from Mexican poet ...

Wallace Stevens was one Americas greatest modernist poets. Stevens won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955. This collection of poems contains seven books of poetry as well as some of Stevens most well known works including “Sunday Morning” and “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”. Wallace Stevens wrote most of his poetry later in life, all while remaining a full time Insurance Executive. Expertly formatted with a linked table of contents. Look for more classic books from Green Light. V...

In Tragic Sense of Life, Miguel de Unamuno offers a passionate meditation on mortality, faith, reason, and the human longing for immortality. Written in a hybrid form that joins philosophical essay, theological reflection, and lyrical confession, the book resists systematic doctrine in favor of existential urgency. Situated between Kierkegaardian inwardness and the crises of early twentieth-century modernism, it argues that the deepest truth of human life lies not in rational certainty but...

The largest and richest English-language volume of poetry from “the greatest twentieth-century writer you have never heard of” (Los Angeles Times)―now thoroughly revised and updatedEdited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Richard Zenith, the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Pessoa: A BiographyA Penguin ClassicWriting obsessively in French, English, and Portuguese, poet Fernando Pessoa (...

Complete and unabridged, Don Quixote is the epic tale of the man from La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Their picaresque adventures in the world of seventeenth-century Spain form the basis of one of the great treasures of Western literature.In a new translation that “comes closest, among the modern translations, to the simple, intimate, direct style that characterizes Cervantes’ narrative,”* Don Quixote is a novel that is both immortal satire of an ...