Lit in Translation

Miłosz: A Biography

Miłosz. Biografia

Andrzej Franaszek (born 1971)

Translated by Aleksandra Parker, Michael Parker

English editions

In English

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Ten years of work, meetings with the poet's friends and research in Poland, Lithuania, France and America produced this life of Czesław Miłosz. It shows him unlike the textbook figure: depressive, unsure, disappointed, led astray by passion, making dramatic personal and political choices, with his love affairs, indulgences and disloyalties neither hidden nor dwelt upon, as side effects of a hunger for meaning, faith and experience. Drawing on facts and on the self-portraits scattered through his work, it is also a panorama of a century whose hells and paradises he passed through.

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About the book

Form
Nonfiction
Length
959 pages in the original
Genres
Historical (assigned by AI)
Set in
Lithuania, Poland, France, United States
First published
2011 by Znak
Author's age
40 when first published
ISBN

9788324016143 (original)

9780674495043 (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, United States)