Publisher's Synopsis
Octavio Paz is a Mexican poet, philosopher and critic. In this book he uses the holy Indian city of Galta - partly ruined, in a countryside of fobidding hills - as a springboard for his speculations. Impressions of the landscape and the holy city, replete with its wild hordes of marauding monkeys, alternate with ruminations on the nature of time and space, sexuality and poetry. Octavio Paz won the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.
