Czeslaw Milosz

Abecedario, publicado originalmente en inglés y estructurado en forma de diccionario, resume con formidable eficacia el universo personal y literario de Milosz. El escritor cumple con creces con la maxima clasica de que nada humano le es ajeno: desde sentidos homenajes a importantes pero ya olvidados escritores polacos de la generacion de entreguerras a verdaderos ensayos sobre algunos artistas y pensadores de su predileccion, como Balzac, Rimbaud, Robert Frost, Schopenhauer o Suzuk, sin olvidar a personajes anonimos que marcaron su vida con mas intensidad que las voces famosas. Pero lo que convendria destacar en la obra son las entradas referidas a ideas. Es aqui donde la intensidad de pensamiento de Milosz, sutil como pocas, brilla con luz propia y donde el lector se acercara mas a esa intimidad conceptual que destila su poesia. Este Abecedario es, asi, el modo mas idoneo para acercarse a la obra de uno de los escritores mas originales y perturbadores del siglo XX.

Reissued to mark Milosz's 90th brthday, this work is a brilliant evocation of life on the Polish-Russian borders in the early 20th century, a piece of nature-writing and a meditation on childhood.

Czeslaw Milosz (Szetejnie, Lituània, 1911) durant els anys trenta va ser un líder del moviment d'avantguarda polonès. El 1951 va enfrontar-se al govern de Varsòvia i va emigrar als Estats Units. És p

Nelle visioni di William Blake, la "terra di Ulro" designa un luogo di sofferenza e costrizione che molto somiglia a quello che Milosz ha attraversato, dalle turbolenze degli anni dell''anteguerra all''invasione nazista della Polonia, al regime sovietico, all''esilio. Ma per tutta la vita Milosz ha pensato che scrivere potesse servire anche a infrangere i cancelli di quel luogo sinistro. Il libro e una autobiografia intellettuale.

Proud to be a Mammal (1942-97) is Czeslaw Milosz's moving and diverse collection of essays. Among them, he covers his passion for poetry, his love of the Polish language that was so nearly wiped out by the violence of the twentieth century, and his happy childhood. Milosz also includes a letter to his friend in which he voices his concern about the growing indifference to murder and the true value of freedom of thought, as well as a verbal map of Wilno, with each street revealing both a rich local history and intricate, poignant personal memories.

This is the most beautiful and powerful of Milosz's poems from across his writing life. This selection brings together the most beautiful and powerful of Czeslaw Milosz's poems, spanning his writing life. In verses such as 'Cafe' he considers the upheaval, revolutions and two world wars that he had witnessed, while 'My Faithful Mother Tongue' reflects the loyalty he felt to his native Polish language. He also remembers his schooldays in 'The World', and in 'Bypassing Rue Descartes' recalls the Paris streets of his student years, displaying both tenderness and tough-minded fury towards those who shaped his experiences. Writing not about abstract emotions, but about the horrors and beauty that he directly observed, Milosz opens our eyes to the joy-bringing potential of the poetry to which he gave his life. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. Born in Lithuania while it was still part of the Russian Empire, he lived much of his life in Poland or exiled in California. He was the author of one of the definitive books on totalitarianism, The Captive Mind, but also wrote with extraordinary vividness and moral authority on his childhood, his experiences under Nazism and on the tragedy of Central Europe.

Alle soglie dei novant''anni, in modo del tutto imprevisto, con spregiudicata disinvoltura Milosz si racconta, proiettando in un vivace diorama tutta la sua vita intellettuale e creativa. Frammenti narrativi o filosofici si alternano a poesie, aforismi, aneddoti; saggi brevi, citazioni, criptici ritratti di scrittori compaiono accanto a scorci di paesaggio, ricordi personali, canzoni, resoconti giornalistici, perfino al biglietto di una piccola ammiratrice.