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050	0	4	_aPG7158 _b.M556 2017
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aFranaszek, Andrzej, _e1
245	1	0	_aMilosz : _ba biography / _cAndrzej Franaszek ; edited and translated by Aleksandra and Michael Parker.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, _c(c)2017.
300			_a1 online resource (vii, 526 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : _billustrations, maps.
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520	0		_aAndrzej Franaszek's award-winning biography of Czeslaw Milosz--the great Polish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980--offers a rich portrait of the writer and his troubled century, providing context for a larger appreciation of his work. This English-language edition, translated by Aleksandra Parker and Michael Parker, contains a new introduction by the translators, along with historical explanations, maps, and a chronology. Franaszek recounts the poet's personal odyssey through the events that convulsed twentieth-century Europe: World War I, the Bolshevik revolution, the Nazi invasion and occupation of Poland, and the Soviet Union's postwar dominance of Eastern Europe. He follows the footsteps of a perpetual outsider who spent much of his unsettled life in Lithuania, Poland, and France, where he sought political asylum. From 1960 to 1999, Milosz lived in the United States before returning to Poland, where he died in 2004. Franaszek traces Milosz's changing, constantly questioning, often skeptical attitude toward organized religion. In the long term, he concluded that faith performed a positive role, not least as an antidote to the amoral, soulless materialism that afflicts contemporary civilization. Despite years of hardship, alienation, and neglect, Milosz retained a belief in the transformative power of poetry, particularly its capacity to serve as a source of moral resistance and a reservoir of collective hope. Seamus Heaney once said that Milosz's poetry is irradiated by wisdom. Milosz reveals how that wisdom was tempered by experience even as the poet retained a childlike wonder in a misbegotten world.-- _cProvided by publisher.
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500			_aTranslated from the Polish.
505	0	0	_aChapter 1. The garden of Eden, 1911-1920 -- _t"Darkness split by distant flashes, illuminations" -- _tThe earthly paradise -- _tGood and bad blood -- _tA grenade under the bed -- _tChapter 2. A young man and mysteries, 1921-1929 -- _tThe apartment with fig-plants -- _tTomcat -- _tDoctor Catchfly -- _tManichean poisons -- _tEarly literary tastes (and Russian roulette) -- _tInside the lodge -- _tThe rushing Heraclitean river -- _tChapter 3. Black Ariel, 1930-1934 -- _t"I devote too little time to study" -- _tEgg-man -- _tThe Cezary Baryka Complex -- _tFriday seminars, literary Wednesdays -- _tLeviathan's wardens -- _t"A bridge suspended in mid-air" -- _tThe Devil's see-saw -- _t'If early love had lasted ... ' -- _t"To the left, to the right" -- _tChapter 4. The country of the first emigration, 1935-1939 -- _t"A certain student in the city of Paris" -- _t"The whole cosmos revolves within us" -- _t"On black meadows" -- _tPublican -- _t"A handful of unearthly truths" -- _t'And Siena descends into light' -- _t'In my homeland, to which I will not return' -- _tWarsaw friendships -- _tJanka -- _tComing down to earth -- _tA blood-red star -- _tChapter 5. Voices of poor people, 1939-1945 -- _tMedals in the suitcase -- _tReflections on the inferno -- _tThe theory of the last zloty -- _tMiranda's Island -- _tGniewosz -- _t"A poor Christian looks at the ghetto" -- _tNoah's Ark -- _tChapter 6. In partibus daemonis, 1945-1951 -- _t"We are from Lublin" -- _tRobinson Crusoe from Warsaw -- _tA pact with the Devil -- _tMother's grave -- _tRescue -- _tChocholy -- _t"A passion for doing something useful" -- _tOpen-source intelligence.
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600	1	0	_aMiłosz, Czesław.
650		0	_aPoets, Polish _y20th century _vBiography.
650		0	_aPoets, Polish _y21st century _vBiography.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aParker, Aleksandra, _5, _etrl
700	1		_aParker, Michael, _d1949- _5, _etrl
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1491801&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell