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Sor Juana, Or, The Traps of Faith | Octavio Paz, Margaret Sayers Peden

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A life of the seventeenth-century poet, intellectual, and feminist who became a nun and eventually gave up secular learning, places her in her times and in Spanish intellectual tradition, and examines the contradictions in her personality.

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Sor Juana, Or, The Traps of Faith | Octavio Paz, Margaret Sayers Peden

Whenever she couldn' t get what she had planned she cut a lock and said: "Useless to adorn a head lacking the most beautiful ornament: knowledge"

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Sor Juana, Or, The Traps of Faith | Octavio Paz, Margaret Sayers Peden

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A Nobel prize for Literature writing the biography of a woman who would easily have deserved it. A woman who lived in the XVII New Spain. A scholar in a time when a woman was definitely not permitted to be, who knew the seduction of love and faith and expressed both in sublime poetry. A journey in Time as Paz said: "A Mexican of the XX century reads this gorgeous enigma of a nun of the XVII New Spain"

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