This illuminating study by novelist, historian, and critic Eva Hoffman is a literary biography of the Polish Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz. One of the greatest writers of our time, Miłosz captures in ...
In his lecture for the 1980 Nobel Prize in literature, the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004) referred to his work as “a quest for reality.” Miłosz’s life was one long defense of poetry, not only ...
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In the dim light on the trampled grasses Girls lie still with soldiers in their arms. Until the image alters: dark glance Of a shoulder, an unbuttoned blouse. Trees spring from the ancient bedrock And ...
(MENAFN- The Conversation) In 1931, when the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz was 20 years old, he spent a summer travelling across Europe with friends. At the French border, as he later wrote in Native ...
Joseph Conrad in Polish Eyes CZESLAW MILOSZ is the most famous of contemporary Polish émigré writers. He was born in Lithuania in 1911. After the Second World War he served in the diplomatic service ...