Czesław Miłosz
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,...
16) 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...
19) Rok mysliwege
Author
Series
Biblioteka "Kultury" ; t. 462
Publisher
Instytut Literacki
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Like Native Realm, Czeslaw Milosz's autobiography written thirty years earlier, A Year of the Hunter is a "search for self-definition." A diary of one year in the Nobel laureate's life, 1987-88, it concerns itself as much with his experience of remembering - his youth in Wilno and the writers' groups of Warsaw and Paris; his life in Berkeley in the sixties; his time spent with poets and poetry - as with the actual events that shape his days. Throughout,...