Forms of Hope: Essays - Couverture rigide

Venclova, Tomas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1878818708 ISBN 13 : 9781878818706

Editeur : Sheep Meadow Press,U.S., 2011

Synopsis

Book by Venclova Tomas

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Tomas Venclova, the great Lithuanian poet, has for a quarter of a century been one of the lonely representatives of the conscience of Lithuania. He belongs to a distinguished line of late-twentieth-century poets, one that includes Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky. They are the cosmopolitan exiles, 'the transplanted spirits whose fate has been to burrow back into the mother tongue to claim the home that history denied them.' This drama also plays out in Venclova's Forms of Hope: essays and public statements on political and literary subjects. As an essayist, Venclova writes that he has been occupied by two basic themes: Vilnius, his native city, 'through whose example one could easily trace all of the complexity and tragedy of ethnic and national relations in Eastern Europe,' and 'the eastern European riter's response to the totalitarian challenge,' These studies of contemporary history and writers are themselves part of the struggle.

Biographie de l'auteur

Tomas Venclova was born in the Lithuania of 1937. A book of his poetry, Winter Dialogue, was published by Northwestern University Press. He is a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Yale University, and has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Columbia, and Berkeley.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Sheep Meadow Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1878818708
• ISBN 13: 9781878818706
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288