Czesław Miłosz
Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1981-1982
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Legends of Modernity, now available in English for the first time, brings together some of Czesław Miłosz's early essays and letters, composed in German-occupied Warsaw during the winter of 1942-43. "Why did the European spirit succumb to such a devastating fiasco?" the young Miłosz asks. Half a century later, when Legends of Modernity saw its first publication in Poland, Miłosz said: "If everything inside you is agitation, hatred, and despair,...
20) Road-side dog
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
I went on a journey to acquaint myself with my province, in a two-horse wagon with a lot of fodder and a tin bucket rattling in the back. The bucket was required for the horses to drink from. I traveled through a country of hilts and pine groves that gave way to stretches of forest, where tangles of smoke hovered over the roofs of houses, as if they were on fire, for they were chimneyless cabins; I crossed districts of fields and lakes. It was so...