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Legends of Modernity - Essays and Letters from Occupied Poland (Paperback)
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Legends of Modernity - Essays and Letters from Occupied Poland (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 500
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"Legends of Modernity," now available in English for the first
time, brings together some of Czeslaw Milosz's early essays and
letters, composed in German-occupied Warsaw during the winter of
1942-43.
"Why did the European spirit succumb to such a devastating fiasco?"
the young Milosz asks. Half a century later, when "Legends of
Modernity" saw its first publication in Poland, Milosz said: "If
everything inside you is agitation, hatred, and despair, write
measured, perfectly calm sentences..." While the essays here
reflect a "perfect calm," the accompanying contemporaneous exchange
of letters between Milosz and Jerzy Andrzejewski express the raw
emotions of "agitation, hatred and despair" experienced by these
two close friends struggling to understand the proximate causes of
this debacle of western civilization, and the relevance, if any, of
the teachings of the Catholic church.
Passionate, poignant, and compelling, "Legends of Modernity" is a
deeply moving insight into the mind and emotions of one of the
greatest writers of our time.
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