Vapid interviewer, full of vapid questions. Telltale sign: Paz ends the interview: "I think it's time you have to go."

The book contains a review (inexplicably) of a James Michener book 'Mexico', the interview transcript, Paz's Nobel lecture transcript in English and Spanish, biographies of both Paz and Porter, list of their works.

Paz Lines:

Q: any contemporary writers you maintain contact with go out to dinner , enjoy a correspondence with or would just prefer to read?

A: Mexican?.....I don’t want to answer, because it would be very complex.

- (talking about poets and politics) Camus was an artist not a thinker. Even Sartre was not a great original thinker. ...he was a great man though.

- I have never looked for popularity.....I never admired popular poets.

- India has been one of my great passions and the first year i was very unhappy and didn’t like it but after...

Q. What started off - when you were in india, your love for india, was it the art, was it painting or -

A. No. In the beginning when I get - yes, I used to love art, but you don’t love a country because you love a beautiful sculpture so - no, it was the people.....I love the Indian people and I love the Indian civilization. It’s fascinating, I mean the country was invented, totally, but it has substance.

Q. Yes. that’s fine. I’m getting slightly worried now about -

A. I think it’s time you have to go.