Review: Melinda Camber Porter in Conversation with Octavio Paz, Cuernavaca, Mexico 1983: ISSN Vol 1, No. 4 Melinda Camber Porter Archive of Creative Works

Melinda Camber Porter in Conversation with Octavio Paz, Cuernavaca, Mexico 1983: ISSN Vol 1, No. 4 Melinda Camber Porter Archive of Creative Works by Octavio Paz
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

With introductory material from Dr. Laura Vidler etc. and biographical material, this is the unabridged conversation Melinda Camber Porter had with Octavio Paz in August 1983 at his home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The writers' comfort and wide-ranging conversation roams over literature, poetry and more. This conversation touches on Octavio Paz's books, Marcel Duchamp, The Monkey Grammarian, Las trampas de la Fe) on Sor Juana InEs de la Cruz and more. The parts of the conversation about Paz's opinions of Duchamp (didn't like his art at first), Picasso, Camus (an artist, which Sarte is not) and Matisse-all previously cut-appears here and are interesting.

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