My Life with the Wave . He wrote many novels, poems and short stories. His highest and last appointment was as Mexico's ambassador to India. I didn’t want to say anything to her, because it hurt me to shame her in front of her friends. Octavio Paz: some short poems Here My steps along this street resound in another street in which I hear my steps passing along this street in which Only the mist is real -- Octavio Paz --I have been in a thick fog or mist and there are strange sounds and strange visions immersed in there, along with me. The following morning the protagonist leaves town, presumably out of fear. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. Pedestrian He walked among the crowds on the Boulevard Sebasto', thinking about things. “The Wave”by Octavio Paz When I left that sea, a wave moved ahead of the others. I WOKE COVERED with sweat. In spite of the shouts of the others who grabbed her by her floating clothes, she clutched my arm and went off with me leaping. Octavio Paz . Mexican author Octavio Paz enjoyed a worldwide reputation as a master poet and essayist. In Octavio Paz’s short story, The Blue Bouquet the reader learns that the often unwanted transition from innocence to experience affects humans by altering their perspective of their lives and their view of the world around them. During the 1920s, he travelled abroad; he fought on the Republican side in the Spanish by Octavio Paz (1949), translated by Eliot Weinberger. Read The Street by Octavio Paz from the story A Collection of Short Stories by poohbear831 with 396 reads. She was tall and light. englishclass, bored, doing. Narrated in the first person by an unnamed man the reader realises after reading the story that Paz may be exploring the theme of conflict. Besides, the furious stares of the elders paralyzed me. A gray-winged butterfly, dazzled, circled the yellow light. Although Mexico figures prominently in Paz’s work—one of his best-known books, The Labyrinth of Solitude, for example, is a comprehensive portrait of Mexican society—Los Angeles Timescontributor Jascha Kessler called Paz “truly international.” The Blue Bouquet. He was a very prolific writer. At nineteen, he published his first volume of poetry. Octavio Paz (1914 to 1998-Mexico City) is one of Mexico's most highly regarded writers. For many years he was a career diplomat for Mexico. In The Blue Bouquet by Octavio Paz we have the theme of conflict, fear, innocence, connection, love and self-importance. Born in ll4exico City, Octavio Paz (1914- ) was educated in Catholic schools and graduated from the National University of Mexico. Hot steam rose from the newly sprayed, red-brick pavement.