Synopses & Reviews
This major prose work is both a moving spiritual self-portrait and an unflinching inquiry into the genesis of our modern afflications. A man who was raised a Catholic in rural Lithuania, lived through the Nazi occupation of Poland, and emerged, first in Europe and then in America, as one of our most important men of letters, speaks here of the inherited dilemmas of our civilization in a voice recgonizable for its honesty and passion. Although he does not believe in a return to a world of prescientific innocence, Czeslaw Milosz admires those writers who rebelled against the laws of Ulro Blake, Swedenborg, Simone Weil, Dostoevsky, and others who labored, often at the coast of madness, to create an image of man different from that which the world offered.
Review
"The Land of Ulro reveals, among other things, the creative growth and workings of a brilliant poet." Arthur Sabatini, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Review
"[The Land of Ulro] examines Milosz's state of mind and intellectual preoccupations in the last phase before he achieved international fame....An extremely personal book....It is an intimate diverstissement, peppered nonetheless with stimulating insights and packed with food for thought about our drift toward disaster." Norman Davies, The New York Times Book Review
Synopsis
This major prose work, originally published in English in 1985, is both a moving spiritual self-portrait and an unflinching inquiry into the genesis of our modern afflictions. A man who was raised a Catholic in rural Lithuania, lived through the Nazi occupation of Poland, and emerged, first in Europe and then in America, as one of our most important men of letters, speaks here of the inherited dilemmas of our civilization in a voice recognizable for its honesty and passion.
Synopsis
This major prose work, originally published in English in 1985, is both a moving spiritual self-portrait and an unflinching inquiry into the genesis of our modern afflictions. A man who was raised a Catholic in rural Lithuania, lived through the Nazi occupation of Poland, and emerged, first in Europe and then in America, as one of our most important men of letters, speaks here of the inherited dilemmas of our civilization in a voice recognizable for its honesty and passion.
About the Author
Czeslaw Milosz received the 1978 Neustadt International Prize in Literature and the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. Since 1961, he has taught at the University of California at Berkeley.