About this title: Nearly half a century of illuminating prose by the Nobel Laureate is collected here, offering a sustained encounter with one of the late 20th century's most important literary voices. Czeslaw Milosz writes ethical statements, biographical and autobiographical sketches, criticism, and political pieces, displaying his eclectic erudition and sensitivity throughout. Essay titles include, "Speaking of a Mammal," "The Importance of Simone Weil," "Miss Anna and Miss Dora," and "Why Religion?" and there are essays on such writers as Robinson Jeffers, Dostoevsky, and T.S. Eliot. This volume brings ...
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Description: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2001; Good+; no d/j; First Edition; Edited and with an Introduction by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G. Levine. read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 462 pp. softcover. Spine is uncreased, binding is like new. Pages are unmarked, very clean overall, hint of tanning to page edges. read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780374528591ISBN:0374528594
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"I know that some folks find Milosz a little bit with one foot in the 19th century but I really love thatthis has fostered his philosophical outlook, his ideas about good and evil (very Polish in that it's an old culture influenced heavily by fairly old religious practices -- Catholocism and Judaism)and his morality. I am currently watching the Decalogue by Kieslowski and I think they would have had much to talk about. What's really wonderful about this book are the short essays about life, about people, and those that ask the question, "why write"? -- to what end. I just read a great article in the American Poetry Review, an interview with Jack Gilbert, who feels American (u.s.) Poetry suffers from people not knowing why they write anymore -- careerism, money, fame, etc. these things get in the way of poetry that matters, poetry that gives us something we need... We've lost something. I am not sure if I accept this 100% but if I do, then I need to really change my life."
"So far mostly about being a writer in exile (depressing) or about people/places in Poland (mildly incomprehensible to me). Some moments of startling (is that word overused in reviews?) depth, interest, insight, beauty: particularly his essays about a place he was familiar with in his childhood, and traveling with his friends by canoe through Europe."
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