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Alternating Current

Octavio Paz
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In an incisive volume of essays, the Nobel laureate reflects on the author's credo as an artist and poet, the sixties drug culture, modern atheism, politics, and ethics.
Genres: NonfictionEssaysNobel PrizeLiterary CriticismPoetrySpanish LiteratureLiteratureLiterary Fiction
226 Pages

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