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A comprehensive selection of essays--some never before translated into English--by the Nobel Laureate.
To Begin Where I Am brings together a rich sampling of poet Czeslaw Milosz's prose writings. Spanning more than a half century, from an impassioned essay on human nature, wartime atrocities, and their challenge to ethical beliefs, written in 1942 in the form of a letter to his friend Jerzy Andrzejewski, to brief biographical sketches and poetic prose pieces from the late 1990s, this volume presents Milosz the prose writer in all his multiple, beguiling guises. The incisive, sardonic analyst of the seductive power of communism is also the author of tender, elegiac portraits of friends famous and obscure; the witty commentator on Polish complexes writes lyrically of the California landscape. Two great themes predominate in these essays, several of which have never appeared before in English: Milosz's personal struggle to sustain his religious faith, and his unswerving allegiance to a poetry that is "on the side of man."
In "Still Life with a Bridle," poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert
takes an intriguing look at the cultural, artisitic, and aesthetic
legacy of 17th-century Holland. These sixteen essays reveal
Hervert's discriminating artistic eye and poetic sensibility, one
that revels in irony, humor, and a satirist's appreciation of the
absurd. An inveterate museum-goer, he focuses on the art of the
Dutch masters, using it as a stepping-off point for a thoroughly
individual and entertaining examination of the foibles, genius, and
character of the Dutch people as a whole. The result is an
unorthodox and revealing glimpse into the past that gives us a
keener understanding not only of a distant people, but of ourselves
as well.
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