http://johnhaskell.home.mindspring.com/

Touching writings and recordings about Laika and Topsy.

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/crisis/crisis2a.html

All is cold, dead, jagged – and the sun shines brightly on the crushed hopes of man.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1990/paz-lecture-s.html

With the Mexican Revolution:
“México buscaba al presente afuera y lo encontró adentro, enterrado pero vivo. La búsqueda de la modernidad nos llevó a descubrir nuestra antigüedad, el rostro oculto de la nación. Inesperada lección histórica ”

Los beneficios de la técnica moderna son incontables pero es imposible cerrar los ojos ante las matanzas, torturas, humillaciones, degradaciones y otros daños que han sufrido millones de inocentes en nuestro siglo.

…las puertas de la percepción se entreabren y aparece el otro tiempo, el verdadero, el que buscábamos sin saberlo: el presente, la presencia.

These are only a few of the many interesting points in this lecture. It’s available in English, and in a Real Audio file.

http://home.wlu.edu/~barnettj/Holding/99/cstovall/newpaz.htm

Excellent site about the life and biography of Octavio Paz and includes an analysis of El Laberinto de la Soledad.
“Mexicans who subscribe to mimetismo and try to copy other cultures not only show their feelings of inferiority toward the United States, but also remove any possibility of saving their Mexican heritage. ”
The links to the Nobel Foundation Page are outdated, but it’s not difficult to find the new location. Of special interest is his lecture La Busqueda del Presente.

http://sololiteratura.com/php/autor.php?id=30&seccion=2

Part of sololiteratura.com. Links to the text of his works Pedro Páramo and El Llano en Llamas, two Mexican literature classics, the greatest in their kind. If you want to read the best literature in Spanish, it has to be Juan Rulfo.