- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Partitioned Poland and its neighbours, 1914
- Second Polish Republic, 1922, and its neighbours following the Polish–Soviet War
- Poland’s new borders, as ratified at Potsdam Conference, August 1945
- Introduction by Michael Parker
- 1. The Garden of Eden, 1911–1920
- ‘Darkness…split by distant flashes, illuminations’
- The Earthly Paradise
- Good and Bad Blood
- A Grenade under the Bed
- 2. The Young Man and the Mysteries, 1921–1929
- The Apartment with Fig-Plants
- Tomcat
- Doctor Catchfly
- Manichean Poisons
- Early Literary Tastes (and Russian Roulette)
- Inside the Lodge
- The Rushing Heraclitean River
- 3. Black Ariel, 1930–1934
- ‘I devote too little time to study’
- Egg-Man
- The Cezary Baryka Complex
- Friday Seminars, Literary Wednesdays
- Leviathan’s Wardens
- A Bridge Suspended in Mid-Air
- The Devil’s See-Saw
- ‘If early love had lasted…’
- ‘To the left, to the right’
- 4. The Country of the First Emigration, 1935–1939
- ‘A certain student in the city of Paris’
- ‘The whole cosmos revolves within us’
- ‘On black meadows’
- Publican
- ‘A handful of unearthly truths’
- ‘Siena descends into gleams’
- ‘In my homeland, to which I will not return’
- Warsaw Friendships
- Janka
- Coming Down to Earth
- A Blood-Red Star
- 5. Voices of Poor People, 1939–1945
- Medals in the Suitcase
- Reflections on the Inferno
- The Theory of the Last Złoty
- Miranda’s Island
- Gniewosz
- ‘A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto’
- Noah’s Ark
- 6. In Partibus Daemonis, 1945–1951
- ‘We are from Lublin’
- Robinson Crusoe from Warsaw
- A Pact with the Devil
- Mother’s Grave
- Rescue
- Chochoły
- ‘A passion for doing something useful’
- Open-Source Intelligence
- ‘We are slaves here!’
- Dry Flame
- Slaughterhouse
- 7. A Story of One Particular Suicide Case, 1951–1960
- ‘And you are a deserter’
- Rock Bottom
- ‘The enemy of order—humankind’
- Exorcisms
- Daughter of Prophets
- ‘Beyond tears’
- ‘Enough of this lethargy and fighting’
- ‘To be able to earn a living through writing’
- Les grands seigneurs
- ‘To you, sweetheart, I cannot say hello’
- Eternal Moment
- A Place on Earth
- 8. The Magic Mountain, 1961–1980
- Grizzly Peak
- Settling Accounts on Two Fronts
- Wilderness
- Letters to Oneself
- An American in Paris
- Second Space
- Prisoners of Ulro
- ‘Perhaps only my reverence will save me’
- ‘One of the greatest poets of our time, if not the greatest’
- Job
- 9. The Nobel and the Poet’s Later Years, 1980–2004
- Remembering the Wounds
- ‘This crown keeps slipping over my ears’
- Heloise
- ‘I will haunt you with my strange love’
- The Dragon
- Provinces
- ‘One bright point’
- Chronology
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Illustration Credits
- Index
Milosz
A Biography
Product Details
HARDCOVER
$35.00 • £30.95 • €31.95
ISBN 9780674495043
Publication Date: 04/24/2017
Awards & Accolades
- 2011 Kościelski Award, Kościelski Foundation
- Finalist, 2011 Nike Literary Award, Gazeta Wyborcza
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