Emperor of the Earth: Modes of Eccentric Vision

by Czeslaw Milosz

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520045033
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	08/21/1981
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.70(d)

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.