Visions from San Francisco Bay by Milosz, Czeslaw (9780374517632)

Visions from San Francisco Bay

by Milosz, Czeslaw , Lourie, Richard

Paperback - English

Interrelated essays by the Nobel Laureate on his adopted home of California, which Lewis Hyde, writing in The Nation, called "remarkable, morally serious and thought-provoking essays, which strive to lay aside the barren categories by which we have understood and judged our state . . . Their subject is the frailty of modern civilization."

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

0374517630

EAN

9780374517632

Publisher

FARRAR STRAUSS & GIROUX

Publication Date

01 Jul 1983

Pages

240

Weight (kg)

0.29

Dimensions (cm)

21.3 x 13.7 x 1.8

About Author

Czeslaw Milosz was born in Szetejnie, Lithuania, in 1911. He worked with the Polish resistance movement in Warsaw during World War II and was later stationed in Paris and Washington, D.C., as a Polish cultural attache. He defected to France in 1951, and in 1960 he accepted a position at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, and was a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in 2004.