He was “among those members of humankind who have had the ambiguous privilege of knowing and standing more reality than the rest of us.” This is how the Irish poet Seamus Heaney described Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004), Nobel Prize-winning Lithuanian-born poet, novelist, and essayist. This “ambiguous privilege” spanned enough of the disasterous twentieth c (...)
August 11, 2006
Books
Reason Limps
Legends of ModernityEssays and Letters from Occupied Poland, 1942–1943Czeslaw MiloszFarrar, Straus and Giroux, $25, 266 pp.
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