Sor Juana: Or, the Traps of Faith [Paperback]

Octavio Paz (Author), Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator)

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Paperback: 564 pages
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Reprint edition (Jan 2 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674821068
ISBN-13: 978-0674821064
Product Dimensions: 23 x 16 x 3.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 703 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #500,977 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #60 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Caribbean & Latin American

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An illegitimate child, a Catholic nun, an outspoken defender of women's rights, a vivacious beauty who forsook the splendor of Mexico City's viceregal palace for a conventBaroque poet Juana Ramirez (1648-1694), also known as Sor (Sister) Juana Ines de la Cruz, was a bundle of passionate contradictions. Transforming her convent cell into a literary salon, she wrote essays, romances, love poems (some to a countess), ballads, religious and secular plays, epigrams. Her symbolic ode First Dream , about the pilgrimage of her soul while her body lay asleep, was two centuries ahead of its time. In this richly textured study, eminent Mexican poet-critic Paz finds Sor Juana's personality to be an amalgam of narcissism, insecurity, courage and masculinization. This brilliant intellectual biography should help broaden her reputation as a universal poet and proto-feminist. As a companion volume Harvard is simultaneously publishing A Sor Juana Anthology that includes poems, play excerpts and a plea for women's intellectual freedom.
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"The Mexican poet and essayist reevaluates and vindicates the life, times, and works of his 17th-century compatriot" ( LJ 9/1/88).
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The amazing life of Sor Juana, Mar 26 2000

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This review is from: Sor Juana: Or, the Traps of Faith (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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sor Juana--17th century genius, July 15 2007

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This review is from: Sor Juana: Or, the Traps of Faith (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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sor Juana Come To Life, Nov 30 2008

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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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