Forfatter fødeår: 1911-2004
Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future.
Da den polske originaludgave af En hund ved vejen udkom i 1997, var den polske forfatter og nobelpristager i litteratur Czesław Miłosz 86 år gammel. Som om hvert år var en byrde, han... Læs mere
This is the authoritative edition of the work of one of the world's greatest living poets. This volume brings together a selection of Miosz's poetry from his early youth in Poland to poems marking a new century.
Brings together author's poems, spanning his writing life. This book features verses such as 'Cafe' that he considers the upheaval, revolutions and two world wars that he had witnessed, while 'My Faithful Mother Tongue' reflects the loyalty he felt to his native Polish language.
After The Second World War, the author was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In this book, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how its divisions and destruction shaped a generation.