Czesław Miłosz
Paperback | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 4.08 | 439 Users | 39 Reviews
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| Title | : | Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition |
| Author | : | Czesław Miłosz |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | June 27th 2002 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published 1959) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. European Literature. Polish Literature. Poetry. Cultural. Poland. History. Philosophy |
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The autobiography of the Nobel laureateBefore he emigrated to the United States, Czeslaw Milosz lived through many of the social upheavals that defined the first half of the twentieth century. Here, in this compelling account of his early life, the author sketches his moral and intellectual history from childhood to the early fifties, providing the reader with a glimpse into a way of life that was radically different from anything an American or even a Western European could know.
Using the events of his life as a starting point, Native Realm sets out to explore the consciousness of a writer and a man, examining the possibility of finding glimmers of meaning in the midst of chaos while remaining true to oneself.
In this beautifully written and elegantly translated work, Milosz is at his very best.
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| Original Title: | Rodzinna Europa |
| ISBN: | 0374528306 (ISBN13: 9780374528300) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.08 From 439 Users | 39 ReviewsAssessment Of Books Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition
The writer has a very lovely and excellent style of writing and describing people, cities and humanity. He touched the way of understanding how a person analyze his way of dealing with communities.I loved the simplicity of leading the reading to the reality of having a mixture of different cultures. And let him wonder of the reflection the community has over his incentive and inherited nature.I'm very glad that I got back to this book and reread it after so many years. It's still very up to date and prophetic in many ways.
Fascinating book because it's both autobiography, but also book on philosophy.Miłosz shares his story of life and formation of his personality and outlook. His account is extremely valuable since he was born in the Polish family in the Lithuanian part of the Russian empire, saw WWI, grew up during independent Poland, experienced WWII as a poet in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. He spent a lot of time in the West (eventually migrating to the US) and in the communist Poland.His life is a great example how a
"Può darsi che in questa mia descrizione del viaggio qualcuno possa trovare un distacco eccessivo, come se lo sforzo fisico d'una intera notte passata nell'acqua delle torbiere non mi avesse riguardato personalmente, oppure come se non avessi sentito il bruciore delle guance schiaffeggiate dall'ufficiale della Gestapo. Non credo però che questa distanza sia opera del tempo [...]. Le forti emozioni o il gemito strappato dallo sforzo non mutavano la mia indifferenza, che era piuttosto la
I got this book when it was first published, but did not finish it. Last spring I picked it up once again, this time in anticipation of an upcoming first visit to the native realm of my maternal grandparents, Lithuania. I found it good preparation for my visit. Milosz's memoir is a moving, poetical window into the lost world he and my ancestors once inhabited. He well captures the cultural turmoil and political violence that ravaged that region in the first part of the 20th century--in a very
Complex, personal and philosophical. Milosz's reflections on what it meant growing up in E. Europe during the tumult of WWII, Communism, and emigration. One of the best books I've read in years.
I never wanted this book to end. It is a memoir told as social history, written by one of the greatest poets of our time. You get the feeling that Milosz has witnessed everything, that he has absorbed it all, and what he has chosen to tell us has had to pass through the dry flame of his intellect. Considering the time and place that this book comes from (Eastern Europe, World War II) it could be full of melodrama and sentimentality--but it is lacking in either. You get the feeling that Milosz
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