He has a heart for the border, for a region in both countries which most clearly illustrates the unavoidable condition of the liminal.
Talking about Mexico, Paz necessarily talks about the U.S.
To be known, while the human's most profound desire, is to be vulnerable and thus incompatible with the theory of self-preservation. Due to past hurts, people reject others' efforts to be in community with them. What begins, in the case of both Malinche and the Pachucos, as instinct to protect oneself - a subject explored in depth in "Mexican Mask" - quickly develops into a mentality of confrontation. From La Malinche to the Pachucos, Mexican history is full of examples of people who have gradually become entrenched in isolation due to acts of self-preservation. Both aspects are necessary for an understanding of self-preservation. Paz approach the ideas both as a function of biological instinct and as an attitude of confrontation which people choose. Self-preservation is a dominant theme throughout the essays. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous
We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Octavio Paz, in talking about Mexico and its alienation, leaves behind so much of substance that a book of this quality is unparalleled.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. It is such a beautiful work to understand about an alien culture, to draw similarities and to understand how we are shaped by our collective histories, how every nation can have unifying scars that are passed down through generations, how little actions taken years before the conception of a nation itself affect us. The social conditions, the lack of a culture that can be celebrated or owned, the presence of the United States as a neighbour, the changes in Latin America and how to reform Mexico. The musings vary from an individual's existential crisis to that of the nation as a whole. Octavio Paz sets out to understand Mexico as a labyrinth of solitude, as a nation lost in the modern world, through its historical lens. How can solitude define a nation? What is it in the history of Mexico that leaves it stranded in a crisis of existence? How does history influence a nation's collective psychology?
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