The long-awaited paperback edition of Selected Poems, revised and updated with more than forty new poems never before published in English2011 marks the centenary year of one of the twentieth century's most important poets, Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz. To mark the occasion, Anthony Milosz has tran[...]
This major prose work, originally published in English in 1985, is both a moving spiritual self-portrait and an unflinching inquiry into the genesis of our modern afflictions. A man who was raised a Catholic in rural Lithuania, lived through the Nazi occupation of Poland, and emerged, first in Europ[...]
"To Begin Where I Am" brings together a rich sampling of poet Milosz's prose writings. Spanning more than a half century, from an impassioned essay on human nature, wartime atrocities, and their challenge to ethical beliefs, this is a comprehensive selection of essays--some never before translated i[...]
A compelling compendium of poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning poet represents a definitive overview of the work of the seminal author of Second Space, Facing the River, and other works.[...]
Brand new and selected older poems by the Nobel laureate are gathered together in a retrospective collection that covers seven decades in the life and career of an extraordianary literary talent. Reprint.[...]
Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz's most recent collection Second Space marks a new stage in one of the great poetic pilgrimages of our time. Few poets have inhabited the land of old age as long or energetically as Milosz, for whom this territory holds both openings and closings, affirmations as well as[...]
Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future.[...]
After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how its divisions and destruction shaped a generation. Exploring such diverse memories as a Soviet office[...]
"A collection of 300 poems from writers around the world, selected and edited by Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz CzesÅaw MiÅosz's "A Book of Luminous Things"--his personal selection of poems from the past and present--is a testament to the stunning varieties of human experience, offered up so th[...]
Interrelated essays by the Nobel Laureate on his adopted home of California, which Lewis Hyde, writing in "The Nation, called "remarkable, morally serious and thought-provoking essays, which strive to lay aside the barren categories by which we have understood and judged our state . . . Their subjec[...]
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 as with the actual events that shape hi[...]
The autobiography of the Nobel laureate.Before he emigrated to the United States, Czeslaw Milosz lived through many of the social upheavals that defined the first half of the twentieth century. Here, in this compelling account of his early life, the author sketches his moral and intellectual history[...]
Polish Wilno--now Vilnius, in Lithuania--was the city of Czeslaw Milosz's youth and adolescence. In this collection of essays and reminiscences, written over a span of three decades, the Nobel Prize-winning poet traces an informal autobiography againstthe street map of an extraordinary city--a cross[...]
This collection represents the best work of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, Wislawa Szymborska. Including an introduction by Czeslaw Miosz, this volume samples the full range of Szymborska's major themes: the ironies of love, the wonders of nature's beauty and the illusory character of art.[...]
This book is a survey of Polish letters and culture from its beginnings to modern times. Czeslaw Milosz updated this edition in 1983 and added an epilogue to bring the discussion up to date.[...]
This stimulating collection of essays, mostly concerned with subjects taken from Slavic literatures, is at once scholarly and reflective. The volume opens with a true story, "Brognart", which is a confession of the author's remorse based on conflict with French intellectuals. "Science Fiction and th[...]
Andrzej Franaszek's award-winning biography of Czeslaw Milosz--the great Polish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980--offers a rich portrait of the writer and his troubled century, providing context for a larger appreciation of his work. This English-language edition, translated [...]
Essays discuss the isolation of the poet, the tension between classicism and realism, the impact of reductionism, and the state of poetry in Europe[...]
The best known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right.[...]
In the history of the rebellion of man against God and against the order of nature, Swedenborg stands out as a healer who wanted to break the seals on the sacred books and thus make the rebellion unnecessary. Here are presented a number of his essays to that end.[...]
Milosz survived the Soviet invasion of his beloved Lithuania, escaped to Nazi-occupied Warsaw where he joined the Socialist resistance, then witnessed the Holocaust and the razing of the Warsaw Ghetto. After persecution and censorship triggered his defection in 1951, he found not relief but the angu[...]
Czeslaw Milosz var länge känd för omvärlden
som politisk exilförfattare. Men när han tilldelades Nobelpriset 1980 var det också för sin lyrik, där man i motiveringen kan läsa att han »med kompromisslös
klarsyn tolkar människans utsatthet i en värld av starka konfl[...]