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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 891.858709
EAN: 9780374528300
ISBN: 0374528306
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: June 27, 2002
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Sales Rank: 70742
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The autobiography of the Nobel laureate
Before he emigrated to the United States, Czeslaw Milosz lived through many of the social upheavals that defined the first half of the twentieth century. Here, in this compelling account of his early life, the author sketches his moral and intellectual history from childhood to the early fifties, providing the reader with a glimpse into a way of life that was radically different from anything an American or even a Western European could know.
Using the events of his life as a starting point, Native Realm sets out to explore the consciousness of a writer and a man, examining the possibility of finding glimmers of meaning in the midst of chaos while remaining true to oneself.
In this beautifully written and elegantly translated work, Milosz is at his very best.
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Rating: - Look homeward brother
The test of a truly great book is when you long NOT to finish it. A hundred pages to the end, then fifty, and you slow your tempo down to a page-a-day, then a paragraph, and then finally, just a couple of sentences as to prolong the pain, the pleasure. Milosz's autobiography par excellence, Native Realm, is one such book. And much more than that. A modern Odyssey, it traces the tempestous voyages of one of this century's greatest poets, one of Europa's finest sons.
Subtitled 'A Search ... Read More
Rating: - Astonishing auto-biography of the ultimate Eastern European
If you want to better understand Europe and European history of the 20th century, this is a book to read. Milosz is a Nobel prize-winning poet and writer. This book is his autobiography. He was born in 1911 on the territory of the former Russian Empire. He comes from the Polish-Lithuanian family and is an ultimate Eastern European. He also knows America and Western Europe well.
His knowledge of the European history of the 20th century is nor from the books, but something he lived through ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 891.858709
EAN: 9780374528300
ISBN: 0374528306
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: June 27, 2002
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Sales Rank: 70742
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux