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Title: Eternal Moment: The Poetry of Czeslaw Milosz ((A Centennial Book))
Artist or Composer: Aleksander Fiut
UPC: 0520066898
Label: University of California Press
Released: 1990
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: (A Centennial Book)
Number of Pages: 226
Condition Note: Very light wear to disc. Case and artwork included but clearly used. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : Aleksander Fiut’s study of the poetry of Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz is the first comprehensive examination of the artistic and philosophical dimensions of this remarkable oeuvre. The author refutes such easy categorizations of Milosz as “the poet of Poland,” “the poet of history,” “the poet of the Holocaust.” He examines instead such crucial problems as Milosz’s search for the essence of human nature, irreducible to historical, social, and biological categories; Milosz’s reflection on the erosion of the Christian imagination, which has resulted in a fundamental gap between the individual’s inner life and the image of humanity formed by scientific theories; his efforts to rebuild the anthropocentric vision of the world, while acknowledging the elements that have undermined it; and finally, his attempt to recreate in his poetry a language that is both poetic and philosophical.
The Eternal Moment originally appeared in Polish in 1987. This version, which quotes extensively from Milosz’s Collected Poems, is the first thorough introduction for English-speaking readers to this major poet.
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