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Велике князівство літератури. Вибрані есеї

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Чеслав Мілош належить до ґрона класиків польської літератури, а водночас до тих письменників, яким польська культура другої половини ХХ ст. завдячує своє модерне обличчя. Зібрані у книжці есеї Нобелівського лауреата представляють українському читачеві блискучого інтелектуала, його духовну біографію, накладену на сітку географічних координат Вільно – Варшава – Париж – Берклі – Краків та співзвучну з найважливішими подіями ХХ століття. Читач знайде у книжці також виразні портрети поетових приятелів і побратимів Єжи Ґедройця, Станіслава Вінценза, Вітольда Ґомбровича, Томаса Венцлови, Йосифа Бродського.

440 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2011

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Czesław Miłosz

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Czesław Miłosz was a Nobel Prize winning poet and author of Polish-Lithuanian heritage. He memorialised his Lithuanian childhood in a 1955 novel, The Issa Valley , and in the 1959 memoir Native Realm . After graduating from Sigismund Augustus Gymnasium in Vilnius, he studied law at Stefan Batory University and in 1931 he travelled to Paris, where he was influenced by his distant cousin Oscar Milosz, a French poet of Lithuanian descent and a Swedenborgian. His first volume of poetry was published in 1934.

After receiving his law degree that year, he again spent a year in Paris on a fellowship. Upon returning, he worked as a commentator at Radio Wilno, but was dismissed, an action described as stemming from either his leftist views or for views overly sympathetic to Lithuania. Miłosz wrote all his poetry, fiction, and essays in Polish and translated the Old Testament Psalms into Polish.

Awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature for being an author "who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts."

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