Paper 2. Each essay is accompanied by the relevant mark scheme extract and by a commentary to explain the marks awarded. This resource aims to exemplify to teachers the way the mark scheme is applied to students’ essays. The works covered are La sombra del viento and El laberinto del fauno. Further marked exemplar essays can be found in Secure Key Materials on e-AQA.
The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings. Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture.Octavio Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Compared to Ortega y Gasset's The Revolt of the Masses for its trenchant analysis, this collection contains Octavio Paz' most famous work, The Labyrinth of Solitude, a beautifully written and deeply felt discourse on Mexico's quest for identity that gives us an.The Labyrinth of Solitude: Construction and Deconstruction by Guillermo Hurtado. as a book. The essay was published in 1949, in the September-October edition of. Cuadernos americanos with the title: “The Labyrinth of Solitude.
The essays are predominantly concerned with the theme of Mexican identity and demonstrate how, at the end of the existential labyrinth, there is a profound feeling of solitude. As Paz argues: Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition.