Ecstatic Pessimist : Czeslaw Milosz, Poet of Catastrophe and Hope Paperback / softback
by Peter Dale Scott
Part of the World Social Change series
Paperback / softback
Description
Ecstatic Pessimist is a timely book about the Central and Eastern European experience of the mid 20th century, as told through the poetry and experiences of Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Laureate for literature, who wrote on the horrors of war and the human experience.
Written by a colleague and friend of the poet, it is part literary criticism and part memoir.
This biography/memoir of Czeslaw Milosz is a first hand account of the poet’s life and his relationship to the author, beginning in the 1960s.
Milosz was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat.
Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature.
In its citation, the Swedish Academy called Milosz a writer who "voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts".
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:370 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date:01/03/2022
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- ISBN:9781538172445
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:370 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date:01/03/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781538172445
