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03531aam a2200385 i 4500 001 6B8C515A9E3C11EE84E191EF36ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231219010058 008 230211t20232023nju b 000 0beng 010 $a 2023005046 020 $a 0691212694 020 $a 9780691212692 035 $a (OCoLC)1374489686 040 $a LBSOR $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OCLCO $d IND $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PG7158.M5532 $b H64 2023 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23/eng/20230331 100 1 $a Hoffman, Eva, $d 1945- $e author. 245 10 $a On CzesÅaw MiÅosz : $b visions from the other Europe / $c Eva Hoffman. 264 1 $a Princeton, New Jersey : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a 214 pages ; $c 20 cm. 490 1 $a Writers on writers 520 $a "Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was one of the great literary voices of the twentieth century, in no small part because he very much lived the events and ideologies of that century. Born into a Polish family in what was then the western fringe of the Russian Empire, and what is now Lithuania, a young man Milosz found his life upended by the First World War and his father's conscription in the Russian army. In the Second World War, he provided aid to Jews in Warsaw as a partisan and a member of the Polish socialist underground. But after the war he lived as a permanent exile, from Poland, from Soviet communism, from his early fervent Catholicism and then, later, even from the almost garish extremes and inequalities of the American society in which he chose to live. His work is a lasting legacy. His poetry remains in print, whether in Polish or English or the other languages into which it has been translated, and his two classic works of prose non-fiction, The Captive Mind, his reflection on the hypnotic effect of ideology, and Native Realm, his memoir on his life in Poland and his life away from it, have been reissued in Penguin Classics. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980. In this new volume of the Writers on Writers series, writer Eva Hoffman draws on her conversations with Milosz during their encounters and her own private engagement with his work, in order to comprehend someone whose intellectual and geographic trajectory serves as a mirror to her own, as someone who emigrated with her family from her native Poland and who has since lived and pursued a literary career in the anglophone world. Hoffman concentrates on several important themes in Milosz's life and work, such as his resistance to dogma and fanaticism, his fascination with place and geographic separation, his awareness of his own exile, his attraction to all life, his capacity for pleasure, and finally his basic humanism, which underpinned his poetry"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 600 10 $a MiÅosz, CzesÅaw $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a MiÅosz, CzesÅaw $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00011238 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Polish literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a Polish literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069089 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Hoffman, Eva, 1945- $t On CzesÅaw MiÅosz $d Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023] $z 9780691230412 $w (DLC) 2023005047 830 0 $a Writers on writers 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231219011812.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6B8C515A9E3C11EE84E191EF36ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search