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Octavio Paz. La llama doble: Amor y erotismo. Barcelona Seix Barral. 1994 ((C) 1993). 223 pages.
Octavio Paz's book-length meditation on love and eroticism sums up and elaborates ideas he has long been developing, both in his essays and in his poetry. As a result, even though it is a new book and not republished essays, it contains nothing astonishingly novel to those who have been following his work and thought. Even if it does not represent a groundbreakingly original departure on the author's part, La llama doble will interest Paz readers for its fuller elaboration of ideas long in process. In addition, it offers a number of pithily aphoristic summations of major points; no doubt many of these sayings...