Description
Interrelated essays by the Nobel Laureate on his adopted home of California, which Lewis Hyde, writing in The Nation, called remarkable, morally serious and thought-provoking essays, which strive to lay aside the barren categories by which we have understood and judged our state . . . Their subject is the frailty of modern civilization.
Author: Czeslaw Milosz
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 07/01/1983
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780374517632
ISBN10: 0374517630
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | General
About the Author
Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was the winner of the 1978 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. His last book was To Begin Where I Am (FSG, 2001). Many of his works have been translated into English, including, Beginning with My Streets (FSG, 1992), The Year of the Hunter (FSG, 1994), Road-side Dog (FSG, 1998) Milosz's ABC's (FSG, 2001) and To Begin Where I Am (FSG, 2001).