Visions from San Francisco Bay

by Milosz, Czeslaw; Lourie, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780374517632
• ISBN10: 0374517630
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1983-07-01
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Summary

Interrelated essays by the Nobel Laureate on his adopted home of California, which Lewis Hyde, writing inThe Nation, called "remarkable, morally serious and thought-provoking essays, which strive to lay aside the barren categories by which we have understood and judged our state . . . Their subject is the frailty of modern civilization."

Author Biography

Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was the winner of the 1978 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. His last book was To Begin Where I Am (FSG, 2001). Many of his works have been translated into English, including, Beginning with My Streets (FSG, 1992), The Year of the Hunter (FSG, 1994), Road-side Dog (FSG, 1998) Milosz's ABC's (FSG, 2001) and To Begin Where I Am (FSG, 2001).

Table of Contents

My Intention	3	(3)
Where I Am	6	(3)
Facing Too Large an Expanse	9	(3)
Symbolic Mountains and Forests	12	(5)
Remembrance of a Certain Love	17	(4)
On the Effects of the Natural Sciences	21	(5)
A Short Digression on Woman as a Representative of Nature	26	(4)
Religion and Space	30	(6)
A Certain Illness Difficult to Name	36	(5)
Migrations	41	(4)
The Events in California	45	(7)
On That Century	52	(5)
On the Western	57	(5)
I and They	62	(4)
The Image of the Beast	66	(4)
What Is Mine?	70	(4)
On the Turmoil of Many Religions	74	(7)
On Catholicism	81	(6)
Carmel	87	(8)
To Robinson Jeffers	95	(2)
Sex Provided	97	(6)
On Censorship	103	(11)
The Agony of the West	114	(8)
The Formless and the New	122	(10)
The Evangelical Emissary	132	(4)
Henry Miller	136	(5)
I, Motor, Earth	141	(8)
On Virtue	149	(11)
The Dance of Death and Human Inequality	160	(12)
Essay in Which the Author Confesses That He Is on the Side of Man, for Lack of Anything Better	172	(12)
The Rebirth of Utopia: Herbert Marcuse	184	(14)
Emigration to America: A Summing Up	198