While scholars have chronicled Czes aw Mi osz s engagement with religious belief, no previous book-length treatment has focused on his struggles with theodicy in both poetry and thought. Mi osz wrestled with the problem of believing in a just God given the powerful evidence to the contrary in the natural world as he observed it and in the horrors of World War II and its aftermath in Poland. Rather than attempt to survey Mi osz s vast oeuvre, ukasz Tischner focuses on several key works "The Land of Ulro," "The World," "The Issa Valley," "A Treatise on Morals," "A Treatise on Poetry," and...
While scholars have chronicled Czes aw Mi osz s engagement with religious belief, no previous book-length treatment has focused on his struggles wi...
The Nobel laureate's unfinished science fiction novel--available in English for the first time ever
Awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1980, Czeslaw Milosz was one of the twentieth century's most esteemed poets and essayists. This outstanding translation of his only hitherto unavailable work is classic Milosz and a necessary companion volume for scholars and general readers seeking a deeper understanding of his themes. Written in the 1970s and published posthumously in Polish in 2012, Milosz's deliberately unfinished novel is set in a dystopian future where hierarchy,...
The Nobel laureate's unfinished science fiction novel--available in English for the first time ever
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795) was once the largest country in Europe—a multicultural republic that was home to Belarusians, Germans, Jews, Lithuanians, Poles, Ruthenians, Tatars, Ukrainians, and other ethnic and religious groups. Although long since dissolved, the Commonwealth remains a rich resource for mythmaking in its descendent modern-day states, but also a source of contention between those with different understandings of its history. Multicultural Commonwealth brings together the expertise of world-renowned scholars in a range of disciplines to present...
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795) was once the largest country in Europe—a multicultural republic that was home to Belarusians, Germa...
