Wilno / Vilnius

by Czesław Miłosz

Wydanie jubileuszowe wierszy wilenskich Czeslawa Milosza z okazji setnej rocznicy urodzin Poety

130 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2011

About the author

Czesław Miłosz was a Nobel Prize winning poet and author of Polish-Lithuanian heritage. He memorialised his Lithuanian childhood in a 1955 novel, The Issa Valley , and in the 1959 memoir Native Realm . After graduating from Sigismund Augustus Gymnasium in Vilnius, he studied law at Stefan Batory University and in 1931 he travelled to Paris, where he was influenced by his distant cousin Oscar Milosz, a French poet of Lithuanian descent and a Swedenborgian. His first volume of poetry was published in 1934.

After receiving his law degree that year, he again spent a year in Paris on a fellowship. Upon returning, he worked as a commentator at Radio Wilno, but was dismissed, an action described as stemming from either his leftist views or for views overly sympathetic to Lithuania. Miłosz wrote all his poetry, fiction, and essays in Polish and translated the Old Testament Psalms into Polish.

Awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature for being an author "who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts."

Reviews

[Horatio · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ging schnell von der Hand und hat sich auch schön gelesen. Eine Mischung aus Geschichtsbuch, Anekdoten,sammlung und Briefwechsel. Das ist eine interessante Kombination, die ich so noch nicht kannte. Schade, dass ich das Buch nicht vor der Reise gelesen hatte. Vilnius ist eine vielbeschriebene und innig geliebte Stadt(Die Kurzgeschichte zu Vilnius im Osteuropa-Buch von Stephan Wackwitz hat mir auch gut gefallen.)

Alles in allem eine wirklich gute Lektüre, aber man muss sich auch für Vilnius interessieren, sonst bringt einem das Brot nicht viel.

[Marius · Rating 4 out of 5]

4,5* kai radau jį Wroclaw'e labai apsidžiaugiau. Tik 1000 ranka numeruotų egzempliorių (manasis 914), leidykla Lietuvoje jau bankrutavusi, o eilėraščiai dvikalbiai. Man kaip truputį suprantančiam lenkiškai - labai idomu.
Nuotraukos apie 2000 m. Vilniaus. Ir tas Milošo ilgesys miestui persmelktas poetinių metaforų, negali nejaudinti!
Kažkokia Vilniaus tema pas mane, nes po šios atsiverčiu Antaną Sutkų.