LEADER 05148cam a2200481 i 4500001 260104 005 20240621231529.0 008 171020t20172017mauabf b 001 0beng 010 2016052061 020 9780674495043 |q(hardcover) 020 0674495047 |q(hardcover) 024 8 40027046339 035 (OCoLC)ocn959649749 035 260104 042 pcc 049 LHMA 041 1 eng |hpol 040 MH/DLC |beng |erda |cHLS |dDLC |dYDX |dBTCTA |dBDX |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dERASA |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO |dHLS |dYDX |dOCLCO |dYUS |dNUI |dDAD |dOCLCO |dOCL |dTXAPL |dWLU |dOCLCQ |dLHM 050 00 PG7158.M5532 |bF7313 2017 100 1 Franaszek, Andrzej, |eauthor. 240 10 Milosz. |lEnglish 245 10 Milosz : |ba biography / |cAndrzej Franaszek ; edited and translated by Aleksandra and Michael Parker. 264 1 Cambridge, Massachusetts : |bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, |c2017. 264 4 |c©2017 300 vii, 526 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations, maps ; |c25 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 520 Andrzej Franaszek's award-winning biography of Czeslaw Milosz--the great Polish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980--offers a rich portrait of the writer and his troubled century, providing context for a larger appreciation of his work. This English-language edition, translated by Aleksandra Parker and Michael Parker, contains a new introduction by the translators, along with historical explanations, maps, and a chronology. Franaszek recounts the poet's personal odyssey through the events that convulsed twentieth-century Europe: World War I, the Bolshevik revolution, the Nazi invasion and occupation of Poland, and the Soviet Union's postwar dominance of Eastern Europe. He follows the footsteps of a perpetual outsider who spent much of his unsettled life in Lithuania, Poland, and France, where he sought political asylum. From 1960 to 1999, Milosz lived in the United States before returning to Poland, where he died in 2004. Franaszek traces Milosz's changing, constantly questioning, often skeptical attitude toward organized religion. In the long term, he concluded that faith performed a positive role, not least as an antidote to the amoral, soulless materialism that afflicts contemporary civilization. Despite years of hardship, alienation, and neglect, Milosz retained a belief in the transformative power of poetry, particularly its capacity to serve as a source of moral resistance and a reservoir of collective hope. Seamus Heaney once said that Milosz's poetry is irradiated by wisdom. Milosz reveals how that wisdom was tempered by experience even as the poet retained a childlike wonder in a misbegotten world.-- |cProvided by publisher. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 500 Translated from the Polish. 505 0 Chapter 1. The garden of Eden, 1911-1920 -- "Darkness split by distant flashes, illuminations" -- The earthly paradise -- Good and bad blood -- A grenade under the bed -- Chapter 2. A young man and mysteries, 1921-1929 -- The apartment with fig-plants -- Tomcat -- Doctor Catchfly -- Manichean poisons -- Early literary tastes (and Russian roulette) -- Inside the lodge -- The rushing Heraclitean river -- Chapter 3. Black Ariel, 1930-1934 -- "I devote too little time to study" -- Egg-man -- The Cezary Baryka Complex -- Friday seminars, literary Wednesdays -- Leviathan's wardens -- "A bridge suspended in mid-air" -- The Devil's see-saw -- 'If early love had lasted ... ' -- "To the left, to the right" -- Chapter 4. The country of the first emigration, 1935-1939 -- "A certain student in the city of Paris" -- "The whole cosmos revolves within us" -- "On black meadows" -- Publican -- "A handful of unearthly truths" -- 'And Siena descends into light' -- 'In my homeland, to which I will not return' -- Warsaw friendships -- Janka -- Coming down to earth -- A blood-red star -- Chapter 5. Voices of poor people, 1939-1945 -- Medals in the suitcase -- Reflections on the inferno -- The theory of the last zloty -- Miranda's Island -- Gniewosz -- "A poor Christian looks at the ghetto" -- Noah's Ark -- Chapter 6. In partibus daemonis, 1945-1951 -- "We are from Lublin" -- Robinson Crusoe from Warsaw -- A pact with the Devil -- Mother's grave -- Rescue -- Chocholy -- "A passion for doing something useful" -- Open-source intelligence. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Miłosz, Czesław. 650 0 Poets, Polish |y20th century |vBiography. 650 0 Poets, Polish |y21st century |vBiography. 600 17 Miłosz, Czesław. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00011238 648 7 1900-2099 |2fast 655 7 Biographies. |2lcgft 700 1 Parker, Aleksandra, |eeditor, |etranslator. 700 1 Parker, Michael, |d1949- |eeditor, |etranslator. 765 08 |iTranslation of:Franaszek, Andrzej. |tMiłosz. |bWyd. 1. |dKraków : Wydawn. Znak, 2011 |z9788324016143 |w(DLC) 2011452145 |w(OCoLC)730268829 852 0 |bstacks |hPG7158.M5532 |iF7313 2017