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Legends of Modernity: Essays and Letters from Occupied Poland, 1942-1943

Legends of Modernity: Essays and Letters from Occupied Poland, 1942-1943 - Paperback

by Czeslaw Milosz
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Availability:In StockContributor:Czeslaw Milosz, Madeline Levine (Translator), Jaroslaw Anders (Introduction by)Publish date:2006-10-03Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374530464ISBN-10:374530467UPC:9780374530464Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Essays, Letters, EuropeanSize:8.04 x 5.22 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SC8AXC3VT9

Legends of Modernity, now available in English for the first time, brings together some of Czeslaw Milosz's early essays and letters, composed in German-occupied Warsaw during the winter of 1942-43.

"Why did the European spirit succumb to such a devastating fiasco?" the young Milosz asks. Half a century later, when Legends of Modernity saw its first publication in Poland, Milosz said: "If everything inside you is agitation, hatred, and despair, write measured, perfectly calm sentences..." While the essays here reflect a "perfect calm," the accompanying contemporaneous exchange of letters between Milosz and Jerzy Andrzejewski express the raw emotions of "agitation, hatred and despair" experienced by these two close friends struggling to understand the proximate causes of this debacle of western civilization, and the relevance, if any, of the teachings of the Catholic church.

Passionate, poignant, and compelling, Legends of Modernity is a deeply moving insight into the mind and emotions of one of the greatest writers of our time.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374530464ISBN-10:374530467UPC:9780374530464Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Essays, Letters, EuropeanSize:8.04 x 5.22 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SC8AXC3VT9

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). He is the author of numerous works, many of which 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).


Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Czeslaw Milosz, Madeline Levine (Translator), Jaroslaw Anders (Introduction by)

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Czeslaw Milosz

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