Native Realm A Search for Self-Definition

by Milosz, Czeslaw; Leach, Catherine S.

• ISBN13: 9780374528300
• ISBN10: 0374528306
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-27
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Summary

The autobiography of the Nobel laureate Before he emigrated to the United States, Czeslaw Milosz lived through many of the social upheavals that defined the first half of the twentieth century. Here, in this compelling account of his early life, the author sketches his moral and intellectual history from childhood to the early fifties, providing the reader with a glimpse into a way of life that was radically different from anything an American or even a Western European could know. Using the events of his life as a starting point, Native Realm sets out to explore the consciousness of a writer and a man, examining the possibility of finding glimmers of meaning in the midst of chaos while remaining true to oneself. In this beautifully written and elegantly translated work, Milosz is at his very best.

Author Biography

Czeslaw Milosz received the 1978 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author, most recently, of Road-side Dog and Milosz's ABC's. He lives in Berkeley, California, and Cracow, Poland.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(7)
Place of Birth	7	(12)
Ancestry	19	(17)
Journey into Asia	36	(4)
War	40	(3)
Ten Days That Shock the World	43	(3)
More Wars	46	(8)
City of My Youth	54	(15)
Catholic Education	69	(22)
Nationalities	91	(17)
Marxism	108	(20)
Russia	128	(20)
Journey to the West	148	(20)
The Young Man and the Mysteries	168	(17)
The Publican	185	(18)
The Peace Boundary	203	(26)
The G.G.	229	(24)
Intermezzo	253	(5)
Tiger 1	258	(27)
Tiger 2	285