Native Realm A Search for Self-Definition

Name: Native Realm A Search for Self-Definition
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ISBN: 9780374528300

ISBN-10: 0374528306

ISBN-13: 9780374528300

Edition: 2002

Authors: Czeslaw Milosz, Catherine S. Leach

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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…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 6/27/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.748

Czeslaw Milosz is the recipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. His most recent publications are Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz (FSG, 1997) and Road-side Dog (FSG, 1998). He lives in Berkeley, California.



Introduction


Place of Birth


Ancestry


Journey into Asia


War


Ten Days That Shook the World


More Wars


City of My Youth


Catholic Education


Nationalities


Marxism


Russia


Journey to the West


The Young Man and the Mysteries


The Publican


The Peace Boundary


The G.G.


Intermezzo


Tiger 1


Tiger 2