The Eternal Moment (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Aleksander Fiut
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, History
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Communism or communists, Nature, Literature, Science or scientists, Religion, Poetry or poets, Beauty, Violence, Spiritualism, Abandonment, Poland or Polish people, Diplomacy or diplomats
That the poetry of Czeslaw Milosz, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature, has been largely neglected by academics in the English-speaking world is a dismaying but not altogether surprising fact. Although he has lived in the United States since 1960, he writes in Polish and, to complicate matters further, was born in a country, Lithuania, that is no longer a part of the prewar Polish Commonwealth. Milosz the poet has been less a presence in the American mind than Milosz the dissident, the diplomat working for the Communist state who found political asylum in France and whose first...
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