Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition - Couverture souple

Milosz, Czeslaw

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141392282 ISBN 13 : 9780141392288

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2014

Synopsis

After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how its divisions and destruction shaped a generation. Exploring such diverse memories as a Soviet officer drinking tea with his little finger sticking out, or two Chinese girls passing, laughing, by a New York subway station, Milosz uses these to both 'bring Europe closer to the Europeans' and to capture the formative moments in his life, from his Catholic education to his time in Paris, all with his distinctive honesty, elegance and self-awareness.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. Born in Lithuania while it was still part of the Russian Empire, he lived much of his life in Poland or exiled in California. He was the author of one of the definitive books on totalitarianism, The Captive Mind, but also wrote with extraordinary vividness and moral authority on his childhood, his experiences under Nazism and on the tragedy of Central Europe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0141392282
• ISBN 13: 9780141392288
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 4
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible