Striving Towards Being
The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz
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Author
Contributions
- Robert Faggen (Editor) - Contributor
Publication
1996-12-01 - Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
Language
English
Word Count
44,250 words, Guess
Page Count
177 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7423327M
- ISBN-139780374271008
- ISBN-100374271003
- OCLC Control Number34943219
- Library of Congress Control Number96023827
and 2 more
- Goodreads223062
- LibraryThing578351
Classifications
- LCCBX4705.M4884 A4 1997
Description
In 1958 Thomas Merton wrote an admiring letter to Czeslaw Milosz about his seminal work The Captive Mind. Milosz replied and thus began an animated correspondence which lasted until Merton's death in 1968. During this highly productive decade, Merton continued, a Trappist, to write about nonviolence and the monastic life. Milosz, meanwhile, was writing influential essays and translating the poetry of Aleksander Wat and Anna Swir. In this dynamic correspondence, Milosz and Merton differ in their views of the role of Communism, share thoughts about the power of literature, and contrast their views on the natural world. As different as Milosz and Merton were, they found common ground in their spiritual search and in a desire to understand the human race. A memorial to a great friendship between two of this century's celebrated men of letter, Striving Towards Being is a testament to the examined life.
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