Postdata (Octavio Paz)

Postdata is a book of essays by Mexican writer Octavio Paz. It was published in 1970 in Mexico by Editorial Siglo XXI editors. Review

"Postdata". In the introduction to the book, Octavio Paz clarifies: These pages develop and amplify the lecture I gave at the University of Texas, Austin, on October 30th (1969). his subject is a reflection on what has happened in Mexico since I wrote the Labyrinth of Solitude and hence I called this book: Postscript.

It is a book of essays divided into three parts:

In the Olympics and Tlatelolco the author develops an analysis of the events that occurred in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in October 1968 known as: The Tlatelolco massacre and which led to the resignation of Paz as ambassador in India. In the essay, Paz, with his brilliant style, analyzes the enormous disparity between the moderate requests of the students and the ferocity of Mexican repression.

In the second essay he touches on the history of Mexico from the destruction of the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, through successive governments of P.R.I. (not an ideological party but groups and interests), to end with a call to a hopeful future: we must conceive viable and less inhuman, costly and foolish development models than the current ones. In the third, after a review of the developed / underdeveloped dualism, he compares Mexico with a pyramid, with its relentless hierarchies and, above, the hierarch and platform of sacrifice.

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