Which 1950 Octavio Paz essay includes the chapter 'All Saints, Day of the Dead'?

Octavio Paz’s 1950 essay The Labyrinth of Solitude includes the chapter “All Saints, Day of the Dead.” The Spanish title of the chapter is “Todos Santos, Día de Muertos.”

The book is a major meditation on Mexican identity, history, solitude, death, and communal celebration. In the Day of the Dead chapter, Paz examines how fiestas and rituals give people a temporary escape from isolation while also revealing complicated attitudes toward death.

The chapter belongs to the book’s original nine-part structure, which also includes “Mexican Masks,” “The Sons of La Malinche,” and “The Dialectic of Solitude.” Later editions sometimes add “Postdata,” Paz’s response to the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre, but that addition is separate from the original 1950 essay.

The title can cause confusion because English editions vary in translating the chapter heading. “The Day of the Dead” is a shortened rendering, while “All Saints, Day of the Dead” more closely preserves the Spanish pairing of Catholic and Mexican observances.