To Raja Rao (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Czesław Miłosz
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Epistle/letter in verse
- Genres: Poetry, Epistolary literature
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Communism or communists, Exile or expatriates, Sin or Original sin, Spiritual life or spirituality, Multiculturalism, Moral conditions, India or East Indian people, Poland or Polish people, Utopias, Tyrants or tyranny
The Poem
Czesław Miłosz composed “To Raja Rao” immediately following a long theological discussion he had in Berkeley in 1969 with the Indian writer and philosopher Raja Rao, a man whose international stature, literary and philosophical interests, theological bent, and (perhaps most important) bicultural background parallel Miłosz’s. It soon becomes apparent, however, that “To Raja Rao” deals less with these parallels than with the quite different ways in which the two writers—one a Catholic Pole, the other a Hindu Indian—deal with the “malady” introduced...
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