Beginning With My Streets Essays and Recollections

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.

Product details

• 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