en nothing else but a response to three experiences of childhood helplessness." But his earliest experiences of abandonment, and the strangest, came, he says, when he was 3 or 4 years old. "I see myself, perhaps I should say I see a blurred figure, a childish bundle, lost in the middle of a huge circular sofa upholstered in worn-out silk, right in the middle of the room...there is a party in the house but the little bundle is crying and no one comes. The bundle cries. He has been crying for centuries, but nobody hears him. Only he can hear himself cry. He is lost in a world that is simultaneously familiar and remote, intimate and indifferent...I remember nothing else. Most likely, my mother came to comfort me: Woman are the door to reconciliation with the world"( Day and Muñoz).
             Paz lived in a century where many political changes occurred. He witnessed many wars, knew about concentration camps, massive deportations and exodus, uprising and downfall of ideological empires, of many readjustments in the politics of the geographical world. [His person
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