MILOSZ - FAMILY EUROPE ed. 1
MILOSZ CZESŁAW
FAMILY EUROPE
RODZINNA EUROPA
Paris 1959, Literary Institute, pp. 246, [2]; (Library of "Culture", Volume L); format 13.5x21.5 cm
SOFT PUBLISHING BINDING
Edition 1.
Family Europe - a biographical essay by Czeslaw Milosz, published by the Literary Institute in Paris in 1959 as the 50th volume of the "Kultura" Library. The first national edition in official circulation was released in 1990.
The book was written in the 1950s in Montgeron, and was completed in Paris in 1958. It is a study on Eastern Europe based on the author's biography, it is a kind of intellectual autobiography dealing with the great problems of the epoch. In the introduction, the author explains that this is an attempt to tell other Europeans what it means to be Eastern European. Milosz describes, inter alia, his family genealogy, childhood and youth, war experiences, attitude to Marxism and Catholicism.
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz described the essay with the epithet "Satan's book", while Maria Dąbrowska was delighted with it: "This is Milosz's archbook. The equivalent of Pan Tadeusz in our contemporary literature is Milosz's Family Europe ”.
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