Praise for The Labyrinth of Solitude:
"The Labyrinth of Solitude is essential to an understanding of [Mexico] and, by extension, Latin America and the third world." –The Village Voice
"The most celebrated volume by Mexico's greatest man of letters." –The Boston Globe
"Octavio Paz is an even better essayist than he is a poet. His evocation of Mexican character and culture is, in fact, devoted to the real world, and it produces an astonishing image of a whole nation, truer than the profound truth it reveals for presenting them in a mythos made entirely beautiful. Written in a lucid, rich prose, The Labyrinth of Solitude is Paz's poetic masterpiece." –Commonweal