by Octavio Paz · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432229220
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«El mono gramático» is a prose poem by Octavio Paz, published by Planeta in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
The book interweaves two settings, a path in Galta in India and a garden in Cambridge, to explore the meaning of language and its relationship with reality. Paz reflects on the word and perception, eroticism and knowledge, and connects Eastern cosmogonic myths, Delacroix's Romantic art, Richard Dadd's painting and Tantric Buddhism as a path toward poetic revelation.
The original appeared in 1974; this Spanish-language edition is from 2016. It is listed in catalogues as poetry and philosophy.
It is a work for readers of poetry and philosophy interested in language, perception, and Octavio Paz's essayistic output.
Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican philosopher, poet, and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.
