Itinerary: An Intellectual Journey
Books / Hardcover
History: United States › Latin American Studies
ISBN: 0151005621 / Publisher: Harcourt, November 2000
The late Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist shares the evolution of his intellectual and political ideas in this special look inside the mind of a literary genius. 15,000 first printing.
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Itinerary is somewhat autobiographical, for it is the story of the evolution of my political ideas. An intellectual biography but also a sentimental and even passionate one: what I thought and think about my time is inseparable from what I felt and feel. Itinerary is the story and description of a journey through time, from one point to another, from my youth to my present moment. The line that traces this plan is neither straight nor circular but a spiral that turns back ceaselessly and ceaselessly distances itself from the point of departure. What we are living today brings me close to what I lived seventy years back and, simultaneously, irremediably and definitively distances me. Strange lesson: there is no turning back but there is no point of arrival. We are in transit. Itinerary is the final work of a great thinker and magnificent writer.
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