Milosz : a biography

Milosz a biography

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, transl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Franaszek, Andrzej (-)
Otros Autores: Parker, Aleksandra, editor, traductor (editor), Parker, Michael, 1949- editor, traductor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2017.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42542625*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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