Milosz : : A Biography / / Andrzej Franaszek.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Franaszek, Andrzej,
• MitwirkendeR: Parker, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (544 p.) :; 41 halftones, 3 maps

Andrzej Franaszek’s award-winning biography of Czeslaw Milosz—winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature—recounts the poet’s odyssey through WWI, the Bolshevik revolution, the Nazi invasion of Poland, and the USSR’s postwar dominance of Eastern Europe. This edition contains a new introduction by the tr...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Maps
• Introduction
• 1. The Garden of Eden, 1911–1920
• 2. The Young Man and the Mysteries, 1921–1929
• 3. Black Ariel, 1930–1934
• 4. The Country of the First Emigration, 1935–1939
• 5. Voices of Poor People, 1939–1945
• 6. In Partibus Daemonis, 1945–1951
• 7. A Story of One Particular Suicide Case, 1951–1960
• 8. The Magic Mountain, 1961–1980
• 9. The Nobel and the Poet’s Later Years, 1980–2004
• Chronology
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements
• Illustration Credits
• Index