{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"This Human —","title":"Octavio Paz","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":890,"description":"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.\n\nHis first marriage to Elena Garro — herself a brilliant writer whose manuscripts he reportedly pressured her to burn — was a long war neither could win. His second, to Marie-Jose Tramini, gave him the stability to write his masterwork from a distance: The Labyrinth of Solitude, a book that told Mexico truths it had been afraid to say aloud. When the government massacred students at Tlatelolco in 1968, Paz resigned his ambassadorship in a single gesture that cost him his career and defined his conscience.\n\nThis is the story of a man who built himself from other people's books, watched his own library burn, and spent a lifetime mapping a solitude he could never quite escape.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/hKPkwkoqBRTrPZ7Ozr2MDv9rSOgAoCY19Bar-mYUsLE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yMGI1/ZmVlNTA4MWIwMDM3/NjJiODkyNjZmMjVl/MTNlMS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}