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5 days ago · Czesław Miłosz (/ ˈ m iː l ɒ ʃ / MEE-losh, US also /-l ɔː ʃ,-w ɒ ʃ,-w ɔː ʃ /-lawsh, -wosh, -wawsh, Polish: [ˈt͡ʂɛswaf ˈmiwɔʂ] ⓘ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat.
Jun 26, 2024 · Czeslaw Milosz, Polish American author, translator, critic, and diplomat who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. Perhaps his best-known work is the essay collection The Captive Mind (1953), in which he condemned the accommodation of many Polish intellectuals to communism.
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4 days ago · This illuminating study by novelist, historian, and critic Eva Hoffman is a literary biography of the Polish Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz. One of the greatest writers of our time, Miłosz captures in much of his writing the intensities of a violent century of war and the terrors of authoritarian regimes.
Jun 26, 2024 · Rivers. Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Robert Hass. Issue 147, Summer 1998. “So lasting they are, the rivers!”. Only think. Sources somewhere in the mountains pulsate and springs seep from a rock, join in a stream, in the current of a river, and the river flows through centuries, millennia.
Jun 18, 2024 · 27 lat temu, 10 lipca 1996, zmarł pisarz i polarnik Czesław Centkiewicz. – Życie przynosi niespodzianki. Mnie w darze przyniosło wyprawę polarną, spełnienie moich młodzieńczych marzeń ...
Jun 28, 2024 · Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Robert Pinsky. Issue 87, Spring 1983. Faithful mother tongue. I have been serving you. Every night, I used to set before you little bowls of colors. Want to keep reading? Subscribe and save 33%. Subscribe Now. Already a subscriber? Sign in below. Remember me. Link your subscription. Forgot password?
Jun 20, 2024 · Czeslaw Milosz — ‘A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardic...
