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| Video Discription | (20 Apr 1998) Spanish/Nat Politicians and artists joined literary rivals on Monday in remembering Octavio Paz, Mexico's foremost poet and Nobel prize laureate, who died on Sunday, aged 84. Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, a lifetime Paz fan, had personally confirmed news of his death to reporters earlier in the day on a flight back from the Summit of the Americas. Zedillo said Paz's death at 84 was "an irreplaceable loss for contemporary thought and culture - not just for Latin America but for the entire world". Octavio Paz died on Sunday at his home in the colonial Mexico City neighbourhood of Coyoacan. He had been sick for years with what he called a "long and wretched" illness. In November, after his death had been reported prematurely, he joked: "It pains me that those who insist on killing me are in such a hurry." Paz is regarded as one of Latin America's most important contemporary writers and thinkers. Using a clear and simple writing style that broke with his country's literary traditions, he explored the dualities of the Mexican psyche, such as the contradictions between its Indian and Spanish roots. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) "As a great writer, he's irreplaceable. (off camera: What was his main legacy?)...Poetry, I insist on that. There can't be another one like him because he believed in poetry, lived and wrote through poetry and that's his main legacy and the reason of the profundity of his work." SUPER CAPTION: Carlos Montevalles, writer After a wake at the literary foundation that bears his name, Paz's body was prepared at Mexico's Military Hospital for a memorial service at the Fine Arts Palace. The facade of the white marble palace was draped in black cloth of mourning for the loss of Mexico's poet-philosopher. There, several dozen politicians, cultural figures and literary rivals had gathered to honour Paz. His casket, draped in a huge Mexican flag, was placed in the lobby of the palace. Inside, the first of dozens of funeral wreaths arrived from Mexico's National Cultural Fund, President Ernesto Zedillo and a host of other mourners. Zedillo himself had announced the death from his jet on Monday as he returned from the Summit of the Americas in Chile. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) "As president of the republic, and above all as Mexican, I feel deeply for the death of Octavio Paz. When I found out the news about his death, I felt, like all men and women of the country, that we have lost something very intimate, of our own." SUPER CAPTION: Ernesto Zedillo, President of Mexico Paz is best known for two of his earlier works: the book-length essay "The Labyrinth of Solitude" and the poem "Sun Stone". "Labyrinth" was published in 1950 and described Mexican history as a search. A search - as Paz explained to a friend - "for our own selves, deformed or masked by strange institutions". "Sun Stone", published in 1957, was a critique of what Paz called Mexicans' proud apathy. Again, many colleagues were offended, but the poem earned him wide recognition. Paz won the Miguel Cervantes Prize, Spain's most prestigious award, in 1982. In 1987, he was given the T-S Eliot Award in Chicago. And three years after that, he captured the Nobel Prize for literature. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/c4b436bf44746ad073931ff8b12eec29 |
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