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Beginning With My Streets
Essays and Recollections

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Informationen zum Autor Czeslaw Milosz; Translated by Madeline G. Levine Klappentext 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 against the street map of an extraordinary city-a crossroads of languages, cultures, and beliefs-that lies at the very heart of his internal geography. Beginning with My Streets , available for the first time in paperback, gathers portraits of the writers Aleksander Wat, Dwight MacDonald, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, as well as the great Swedish scientist Emanuel Swedenborg; an exchange of letters from the 1950s with the novelist and diarist Witold Gombrowicz; and a selection of speeches delivered between 1967 and 1987, including Milosz's Nobel Lecture. These diffuse reckonings, distinguished throughout by the flavor of personality and the aura of place, have a cumulative power-they are quintessential Milosz.

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Authors Czeslaw Milosz, Czeslaw/ Levine Milosz
Assisted by Madeline G. Levine (Translation), Madeline Levine (Translation)
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
 
Content Book
Product form Paperback / Softback
Publication date 14.09.2010
Subject Fiction > Poetry, drama
 
EAN 9780374532727
ISBN 978-0-374-53272-7
Dimensions (packing) 14 x 21 x 2 cm
 

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