To Begin Where I Am Selected Essays

Name: To Begin Where I Am Selected Essays
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ISBN: 9780374528591

ISBN-10: 0374528594

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Authors: Czeslaw Milosz, Madeline Levine, Bogdana Carpenter

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A comprehensive selection of essays--some never before translated into English--by the Nobel Laureate. To Begin Where I Am brings together a rich sampling of poet Czeslaw Milosz's prose writings. Spanning more than a half century, from an impassioned essay on human nature, wartime atrocities, and their challenge to ethical beliefs, written in 1942 in the form of a letter to his friend Jerzy Andrzejewski, to brief biographical sketches and poetic prose pieces from the late 1990s, this volume presents Milosz the prose writer in all his multiple, beguiling guises. The incisive, sardonic analyst of the seductive power of communism is also the author of tender, elegiac portraits of friends…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 10/2/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

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 My Intention



These Guests of Mine


Who Was I? Notes on Exile Happiness


Dictionary of Wilno Streets After All . . . Miss Anna and Miss Dora


Journey to the West On Oscar Milosz


The Prioress Brognart: A Story Told over a Drink


Alpha the Moralist Tiger Zygmunt Hertz Pity



On The Side of Man


Letter to Jerzy Andrzejewski Speaking of a Mammal


Facing Too Large an Expanse


Religion and Space Carmel To Robinson Jeffers


Essay in Which the Author Confesses


That He Is on the Side of Man, for Lack of Anything


Better The Importance of Simone Weil Shestov, or the Purity of Despair Dostoevsky


A Philosopher Saligia If Only This Could Be Said Why Religion?



Against Incomprehensible Poetry


Remembrance of a Certain Love A Semi-Private Letter


About Poetry Ruins and Poetry Anus Mundi


Against Incomprehensible Poetry Reflections on T. S. Eliot Robert Frost


On Pasternak Soberly Notes About Brodsky



In Constant Amazement


From "Notebook"


Notes


Index