具体描述
Andrzej Franaszek’s award-winning biography of Czeslaw Milosz—the great Polish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980—offers a rich portrait of the writer and his troubled century, providing context for a larger appreciation of his work. This English-language edition, translated by Aleksandra Parker and Michael Parker, contains a new introduction by the translators, along with historical explanations, maps, and a chronology.
Franaszek recounts the poet’s personal odyssey through the events that convulsed twentieth-century Europe: World War I, the Bolshevik revolution, the Nazi invasion and occupation of Poland, and the Soviet Union’s postwar dominance of Eastern Europe. He follows the footsteps of a perpetual outsider who spent much of his unsettled life in Lithuania, Poland, and France, where he sought political asylum. From 1960 to 1999, Milosz lived in the United States before returning to Poland, where he died in 2004.
Franaszek traces Milosz’s changing, constantly questioning, often skeptical attitude toward organized religion. In the long term, he concluded that faith performed a positive role, not least as an antidote to the amoral, soulless materialism that afflicts contemporary civilization. Despite years of hardship, alienation, and neglect, Milosz retained a belief in the transformative power of poetry, particularly its capacity to serve as a source of moral resistance and a reservoir of collective hope. Seamus Heaney once said that Milosz’s poetry is irradiated by wisdom. Milosz reveals how that wisdom was tempered by experience even as the poet retained a childlike wonder in a misbegotten world.
作者简介
Andrzej Franaszek is Assistant Professor of Polish Literature at Krakow’s Pedagogical University.
Aleksandra Parker is a translator and international communications adviser.
Michael Parker is Visiting Professor in English Literature, Oxford Brookes University, and a writer and lecturer.
目录信息
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
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读后感
用户评价
不得不说，初次接触 Miłosz 这个名字，就有一种莫名的吸引力，它不像那些直白张扬的标题，而是带着一种沉静的力量，引人遐思。翻开书，我期待着一场智识的盛宴，或者一场情感的洗礼。而这本书，确实在很多层面都满足了我，甚至超出了我的预期。它不是那种一眼就能望到底的平铺直叙，而是像一个精巧的迷宫，每一个转角都可能带来新的惊喜，也可能让你陷入更深的沉思。我欣赏它在结构上的独具匠心，那些看似散乱的线索，最终却能巧妙地汇聚，形成一种令人震撼的整体。文字的张力十足，即便在描述最寻常的场景时，也仿佛蕴含着某种深邃的哲理，让我在阅读中不断地反刍，咀嚼其中的意味。它所探讨的主题，跨越了时间和空间的界限，触及了人性的普遍困境，也展现了生命中那些不为人知的角落。读完之后，我久久不能平静，那些画面，那些思想，在我脑海中盘旋，久久不散。Miłosz，这个名字，已经不再是一个单纯的符号，它代表着一种独特的阅读体验，一种对生命和世界的深刻洞察。
评分当我拿起 Miłosz 这本书时，我并没有对它抱有什么特别的期待，只是被书名中那种略带神秘的音节所吸引，觉得它可能蕴含着一些不为人知的故事。而我很快就被它深深地吸引住了，这是一种潜移默化的过程，它不像某些作品那样一上来就抓住你的眼球，而是通过一种润物细无声的方式，逐渐渗透到你的内心。我喜欢作者的笔触，那种细腻而又不失力量的表达，仿佛能将无形的情感具象化。它所描绘的世界，是如此的真实，以至于我常常忘记自己是在阅读，而是感觉自己身临其境，参与其中。书中人物的命运，让我感同身受，他们的选择，他们的困境，都引发了我自己的思考。Miłosz，这个名字，随着阅读的深入，在我心中已经不再是一个简单的书名，它成了一个窗口，一个让我得以窥见更广阔世界，更深邃心灵的窗口。
评分我当初之所以被 Miłosz 这本书吸引，很大程度上是因为它的标题，一种隐约的、带有异域风情的名字，让我觉得它可能藏着不同于我以往阅读经历的故事。而事实证明，我的直觉并没有错。这本书展现了一种独特的叙事风格，它不像很多现代作品那样追求快节奏和强烈的戏剧冲突，而是更注重内心的挖掘和情感的细腻呈现。我沉浸在作者营造的氛围中，仿佛置身于另一个时空，感受着那里人物的呼吸，倾听着他们的心声。它让我重新审视一些我曾经忽略的生活细节，让我意识到，即使在最平凡的日子里，也蕴藏着不平凡的意义。作者的文字功底深厚，对情感的把握更是恰到好处，既不过分渲染，也不显得疏离。Miłosz，这个名字，在我阅读的过程中，逐渐成为一种象征，象征着一种深沉的、内省的、对生命本质的追寻。
评分这本书的封面上，那个名字，Miłosz，就带着一种古老而悠长的回响，仿佛来自某个遥远的国度，或者是一位饱经沧桑的智者。我是在一个午后的咖啡馆里翻开它的，窗外阳光正好，空气中弥漫着咖啡的醇香，而书页间的文字，却瞬间将我带入了一个全然不同的世界。起初，我以为它会是一本晦涩难懂的哲学著作，或者是一部充斥着艰涩诗歌的艺术品，毕竟“Miłosz”这个名字本身就带有一种独特的、需要细细品味的韵味。然而，当我沉浸其中时，却发现它并非如此。它像一条蜿蜒的河流，时而平静舒缓，时而激流勇进，用一种令人着迷的方式，编织着故事的网。我仿佛能看到书中的人物，感受到他们的喜怒哀乐，他们的挣扎与渴望，他们的爱与失去。每一段文字都像是在构建一个独立的画面，又彼此勾连，形成一幅宏大的图景。我喜欢作者那种对细节的刻画，无论是人物细微的表情变化，还是场景的氛围营造，都显得如此真实而生动。合上书页的时候，我感觉自己不仅仅是读了一个故事，更是经历了一场漫长的旅程，那名字，Miłosz，也渐渐在我心中变得鲜活起来，仿佛是一位熟悉的老友，带着他的故事，永远留在了我的记忆深处。
评分我拿到 Miłosz 这本书的时候，是被它的封面设计所吸引，那种简约而富有质感的美，预示着里面蕴含着不平凡的内容。带着一种好奇和期待，我开始了我的阅读之旅。这本书并没有一开始就抛出惊人的情节，而是徐徐展开，如同一个熟练的匠人，一点一点地雕琢着他的作品。我喜欢这种循序渐进的叙事方式，它给了我足够的时间去理解和消化。作者的语言，如同涓涓细流，看似平淡，实则蕴含着巨大的力量，能够触动人心最柔软的部分。我常常被书中某个句子，或者某个意象所打动，它们像是黑暗中的火花，瞬间点亮了我的思绪。它让我思考关于时间、记忆、身份认同等等这些宏大的命题，但又不会让我感到压迫，反而是在一种轻松的氛围中，引导我进行自我探索。Miłosz，这个名字，也随着我的阅读，在我心中逐渐丰满起来，它不再是一个陌生的符号，而是一位引路人，带着我走进了他构建的奇妙世界。
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