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To begin where I am : selected essays
Title:
To begin where I am : selected essays
Author:
Miłosz, Czesław.
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Prose works. Selections. English
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2001]

©2001
Physical Description:
xvi, 462 pages ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Who was I? -- Notes on exile -- Happiness -- Dictionary of wilno streets -- After all -- Miss Anna and Miss Dora -- Journey to the west -- On Oscar Milosz -- The prioress -- Brognart: a story told over a drink -- Alpha the moralist -- Tiger -- Zygmunt Hertz -- Pity -- Letter to Jerzy Andrzejewski -- Speaking of a mammal -- Facing too large an expanse -- Religion and space -- Carmel -- To Robinson Jeffers -- Essay in which the author confesses that he is on the side of man, for lack of anything better -- The importance of Simone Weil -- Shestov, or the purity of despair -- Dostoevsky -- A philosopher -- Saligia -- If only this could be said -- Why religion? -- Remembrance of a certain love -- A semi-private letter about poetry -- Ruins and poetry -- Anus mundi -- Against incomprehensible poetry -- Reflections on T.S. Eliot -- Robert Frost -- On Pasternak soberly -- Notes about Brodsky.
ISBN:
9780374258900
Format :
Book