Contributions

  • Levine, Madeline G. - Contributor

Publication

1994 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

73,500 words, Guess

Page Count

294 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing37863
  • Goodreads1514576

Classifications

  • DDC891.8/58709
  • LCCPG7158.M5532 A3713 1994

Description

Like Native Realm, Czeslaw Milosz's autobiography written thirty years earlier, A Year of the Hunter is a "search for self-definition." A diary of one year in the Nobel laureate's life, 1987-88, it concerns itself as much with his experience of remembering - his youth in Wilno and the writers' groups of Warsaw and Paris; his life in Berkeley in the sixties; his time spent with poets and poetry - as with the actual events that shape his days. Throughout, Milosz tries to account for the discontinuity between the man he has become and the youth he remembers himself to have been. Shuttling between observations of the present and reconstructions of the past, he attempts to answer the unstated question: Given his poet's personality and his historical circumstances, has he managed to live his life decently?

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