<p><b>A compelling personal introduction to the life and work of Nobel Prize</b>¿<b>winning writer Czeslaw Milosz from his fellow Polish exile and acclaimed writer Eva Hoffman</b><br><br>Czeslaw Milosz (1911¿2004) was a giant of twentieth-century literature, not least because he lived through and wrote about many of the most extreme events of that extreme century, from the world wars and the Holocaust to the Cold War. Over a seven-decade career, he produced an important body of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including classics such as <i>The Captive Mind</i>, a reflection on the hypnotic power of ideology, and <i>Native Realm</i>, a memoir. In this book, Eva Hoffman, like Milosz a Polish-born writer who immigrated to the West, presents an eloquent personal portrait of the life and work of her illustrious fellow exile.<br><br>Milosz experienced the horrors of World War II in Warsaw¿the very epicenter of the inferno¿and witnessed the unfolding of the Holocaust from up close. After the
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After The Second World War, the author was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In this book, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how its divisions and destruction shaped a generation.
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Milosz fikk i 1980 Nobelprisen i litteratur. Om denne boken, som er forelesninger han holdt ved Harvard i 1981-82, sier han; Jeg har kalt denne boken Poesien som Vitne, fordi vi ikke er vitne til den - den er vitne til oss. Boken inneholder i alt 6 kapitler...
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Offers a collection of essays that covers the author's passion for poetry, his love of the Polish language that was so nearly wiped out by the violence of the twentieth century, and his happy childhood.
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Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future.
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