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Emperor of the Earth: Modes of Eccentric Vision

By Czesław Miłosz

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9780520341029
DOI
10.1525/9780520341029
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (18792348 bytes)
Edition
Reprint 2019
Pages
264\264
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 17:45:56

Description

This stimulating collection of essays, mostly concerned with subjects taken from Slavic literatures, is at once scholarly and reflective. The volume opens with a true story, "Brognart," which is a confession of the author's remorse based on conflict with French intellectuals. "Science Fiction and the Coming of the Antichrist" concerns Vladimir Solovyov. "Krasinski's Retreat" is another return to the author's student readings, which attempts to determine how a Polish romantic poet could write in 1833 a drama on the approaching world revolution. "Joseph Conrad's Father" sketches the biography of a poet and revolutionary and also throws some light upon the fate of the hero of the last chapter.

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