EMPEROR OF THE EARTH: MODES OF ECCENTRIC VISION.

MILOSZ, Czeslaw.

ISBN 10: 0520033027 / ISBN 13: 9780520033023

Published by University Of California Press, Berkeley, 1977

About this Item

8vo. pp: x, 253. First edition. Original publisher's grey cloth boards with silver lettering at spine in original publisher's black, white and pink illustrated dust jacket. ISBN: 0520033027 Dust jacket shows signs of shelfwear. Some rubbing and small chips at the corners. Slightly creased along the edges. Tail of spine ever so slightly bumped. Otherwise tight and internally perfectly clean copy. Near fine in good plus dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: EMPEROR OF THE EARTH: MODES OF ECCENTRIC VISION.
• Publisher: University Of California Press, Berkeley
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520033027
• ISBN 13: 9780520033023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was born in Lithuania and was Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1980 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.