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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 891.858709
EAN: 9780374251291
ISBN: 0374251290
Label: Farrar Straus Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar Straus Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 1998-11
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Sales Rank: 1510661
Studio: Farrar Straus Giroux
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A moving miscellany of poems, parables, essays, and epigrams from the Nobel Prize winner.
I went on a journey to acquaint myself with my province, in a two-horse wagon with a lot of fodder and a tin bucket rattling in the back. The bucket was required for the horses to drink from. I traveled through a country of hills and pine groves that gave way to stretches of forest, where tangles of smoke hovered over the roofs of houses, as if they were on fire, for they were chimneyless cabins; I crossed districts of fields and lakes. It was so interesting to be moving, to give the horses their reins, and wait till, in the next valley, a village slowly appeared, or a park with the white spot of a manor inside it. And always we were barked at by a dog, assiduous in its duty. That was the beginning of the century; this is its end. I have been thinking not only of the people who lived there once but also of the generations of dogs accompanying them in their everyday bustle, and one night--I don't know where it came from--in a predawn sleep, that funny and tender phrase composed itself: a road-side dog. -from Road-Side Dog
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Rating:  - Musings of a master
Milosz writes so sparingly, so effortlessly and with such whimsicality (one cover reviewer refers to Milosz' essential "elusiveness") that one is simply not aware of technique. I am reminded of the way that the notes of a Mozart symphony or Bach cantata seem to spring forth in perfect order yet with absolute spontaneity. Having recently read the novel "The Issa Valley" I was not disappointed in "The Road-side Dog" although the form is completely different. The latter consists of a collection of ... Read More
Rating:  - Perhaps even worthy of "wise"
Milosz has given us another wonderful book - one firmly planted in memories but not obcessed with the past. A wonderful section is devoted to poetic ideas that he has never written which he offers as potential ideas for those who are younger. Unlike many who espouse religion, he is very open regarding sexual desires and as such he appears to be a whole and genuine person not a literary front. As for the quality of his poetry and prose, there is a reason he was awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature ... Read More
Rating: - Milosz is a reader's delight.
He is able to see into the human heart and condition from childhood to old age and then to describe its humor, wonderment, joy and sadness in poetry-like prose. Guaranteed to claim a permanent place in your reading "heart."
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Dewey Decimal Number: 891.858709
EAN: 9780374251291
ISBN: 0374251290
Label: Farrar Straus Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar Straus Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 1998-11
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Sales Rank: 1510661
Studio: Farrar Straus Giroux