Milosz’s ABC’s (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Czesław Miłosz
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Memory, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, Poetry or poets, Death or dying, Poland or Polish people, Time, Concentration camps
Czesław Miłosz, one of the most highly respected writers of the twentieth century, has accumulated the wealth of a lifetime in his book Milosz’s ABC’s. He suggests he has written this book “instead of a novel, instead of an essay on the twentieth century, instead of a memoir.” Indeed, the book encompasses each of these genres in turn, offering the reader a rare glimpse into the life of a great poet living out his life in the twentieth century.
Milosz’s ABC’s is a collection of short entries covering a wide variety of topics. As the title suggests,...
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