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Cracow 2000
© by Czesław Miłosz
155 x 235
98 pages
hardback
ISBN 83-7006-577-5
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Czesław MiłoszIt
It - Milosz' first volume of poetry for six years, is a real cause for celebration. It reaches hights which poetry only seldom achieves, both through its artistic quality and through its extraordinarily personal tone. Milosz is breathtakingly sincere in this volume, but without a trace of exhibitionism. On the contrary: those confessions are particularly dramatic in which the author writes of his realisation, his awareness, that however much he tries to be absolutely honest in settling accounts with himself, he will never be able to cross a particular boundary behind which a mask or a pretence conceal the most painful and shameful things, where only loneliness and pangs of conscience are left. This 'sounding out the darkness', these attempts to touch, name and exorcise the evils of the world, are nothing less than revelationary. And despite everything, they are encouraging, because after reading the book, one has the feeling that the 'It' - the darkness, barbarianism and suffering - have been overcome by a 'radiating light' which is coming ever closer.
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