Świat: Poema naiwne

by Czesław Miłosz

Genres: Polish Literature, Poetry

20 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1943

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

[KyNessy_ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Spoko, ale widzialam tam wojny. Nie mialo byc tam wojny. Nie palili tam niekogo. Polska Nie byla okupowana

[Luzia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Przykro mi to przez język polski

[Dmk · Rating 3 out of 5]

One rainy weekday morning I read this book twice. Once before knowing backround of the book, and then after reading more about it.
First reading:
Nice, relaxing but nothing really impressive.
Second reading
Now it seems more melancholic, deeper, it works with my emotions much better. Still I'm not keen to this type of poems, he's (I guess) good at what he is doing but it doesn't fit me. And some of themes I found almost like clichés.
Still nice short book worthy of reading.