
Episode #12
Octavio Paz
<p>Octavio Paz grew up in a crumbling house in Mixcoac with a grandfather's library for a father and blue eyes that made him a foreigner in his own country. His real father — a revolutionary lawyer who chose the bottle over his family — died under the wheels of a train when Octavio was twenty-one. That absence shaped everything that followed: the poetry, the diplomacy, the restless need to name what Mexico was and what he was inside it.</p> <p>His first marriage to Elena Garro — herself a brilliant writer whose manuscripts he reportedly pressured her to burn — was a long war...






