cover image Convergences: Essays on Art & Lit

Convergences: Essays on Art & Lit

Octavio Paz, Paz. Mariner Books, $23.95 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-15-622586-1

This collection of essays by a 1990 Nobelist explores how cultures collide or converge. According to PW, the U.S. ``ethic of hygiene,'' Marxism-as-religion in Latin America and the influence of Japanese culture on Hispano-American writing are among the myriad of subjects examined here. (Mar.)