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THE ISSA VALLEY - A NOVEL
Czeslaw Milosz
Published by: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000
ISBN: 978-0-374-51695-6
Strony / Pages: 288, soft cover
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Thomas, the child-protagonist of The Issa Valley, is subject to both the contradictions of nature in this severe northern setting and sometimes enchanting, sometimes brutal timbre of village life. There are the deep pine and spruce forests, the grouse and the deer, and the hunter's gun. There is Magdalena, the beautiful mistress of the village priest, whose suicide unleashes her ghost to haunt the parish. There are also the loving grandparents with whom Thomas lives, who provide a balance of the not-quite-Dostoevskian devils that visit the villagers. In the end, Thomas is severed from his childhood and the Issa River, and leaves prepared for adventures beyond his valley. Poetic and richly imagined, The Issa Valley is a masterful work of fiction from one of our greatest living poets.
"An idyll of immense charm and poetic depth...It takes a masterpiece to reveal the sheer unreality of our modern creative modes and poses, and Milosz's novel is such a masterpiece."--John Bayley, The New York Review of Books
"Not only an impressive but an immediately appealing novel...The Issa Valley has the sensuousness and immediacy one associates with novels apparently inspired by the writer's own childhood recollections: David Copperfield and The Mill on the Floss come to mind."--Michael Irwin, The Times Literary Supplement
"Nothing rings false in this poetic and realistic tale. Even the scenes that...belong to another time and place will hold your attention to the end."--Elie Wiesel, Chicago Tribune
"A lyrical account of a rural boyhood, dominated by family, nature and village life...One is constantly aware of being in the hands of a master--of a talent that is original, unhurried, almost serene...He is a remarkable writer."--Larry McMurtry, The Washington Star
"Superficially, The Issa Valley is a boyhood novel of discovery, a kind of Huckleberry Finn if the latter had been written by a poet/lover. But for the adult narrator, it is an act of self-recovery preceded by, and indeed contingent upon, a recovery of the world, in as unmediated a manner as it is possible to do and still remain within the power of language to describe. That is, it is a recovery of the the poetic self."--Louis Iribarne, World Literature Today
Czeslaw Milosz is the winner of the 1978 Neustadt International Prize in Literature and the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. Since 1962 he has been a professor, now emeritus, of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent publications are Facing the River, Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz, and Road-side Dog. He lives in Berkeley, California, and Krakow, Poland.
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POSTWAR POLISH POETRY
Czeslaw Milosz,
Published by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
ISBN: 0-520-04476-2,
Strony / Pages: 191, soft cover
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TO BEGIN WHERE I AM
Czeslaw Milosz,
Published by: FSG, 2001,
ISBN: 0-374-25890-2,
Strony / Pages: 462, twarda oprawa
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WITNESS OF POETRY
Czeslaw Milosz,
Published by Harvard University Press, 1983,
ISBN: 0-674-95383-5,
Strony / Pages: 121
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NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS
Czeslaw Milosz,
Published by HARPER COLLINS, 2001,
ISBN: 0-06-019667-X,
Strony / Pages: 776, twarda oprawa
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THE HISTORY OF POLISH LITERATURE
Czeslaw Milosz,
Published by: University of California Press, 1983,
ISBN: 0-520-04477-0,
Strony / Pages: 583, soft cover
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NATIVE REALM A SEARCH FOR SELF-DEFINITION
Czeslaw Milosz,
Published by: University of California Press, 1984,
ISBN: 0-520-04474-6,
Strony / Pages: 300, soft cover
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EMPEROR OF THE EARTH
Czeslaw Milosz,
Published by: University of California Press, 1999,
ISBN: 0-520-04503-3,
Strony / Pages: 253, soft cover
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THE LAND OF ULRO
Czeslaw Milosz,
Published by: Farrar-Straus-Giroux, 2000,
ISBN: 0-374-51937-4,
Strony / Pages: 287, soft cover
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SECOND SPACE - NEW POEMS
Czeslaw Milosz,
Published by: Ecco/Harper Collins Publishers, 2005,
ISBN: 0-06-074566-5,
Strony / Pages: 102, hard cover
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CONVERSATIONS
Czeslaw Milosz,
Published by: University Press of Mississipi, 2006,
ISBN: 1-57806-829-0,
Strony / Pages: 217, soft cover
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LEGENDS OF MODERNITY - Essays And Letters from Occupied Poland, 1942-1943
Czeslaw Milosz,
Published by: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005,
ISBN: 0-374-53046-7,
Strony / Pages: 266, soft cover
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Rozmowy polskie 1999 - 2004
Dzieła zebrane
Czeslaw Milosz,
Wydawnictwo: WL, 2010,
ISBN: 978-83-08-04557-2,
Strony / Pages: 1052, twarda oprawa
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Rozmowy tom I
Czeslaw Milosz,
Wydawnictwo: WL, 2011,
ISBN: 978-83-08-04677-7,
Strony / Pages: 1053, twarda oprawa
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New and Collected Poems 1931-2001
Czeslaw Milosz,
Publisher: Ecco, 2017 ,
ISBN: 978-0-06-051448-8 ,
Strony / Pages: 776, soft cover
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Ziemia Ulro Przedmowa Olga Tokarczuk
Czeslaw Milosz,
Znak, 2024,
ISBN: 978-83-240-6857-9,
Strony / Pages: 400, twarda oprawa
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