We present the edition of “Family Europe” by Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) – poet, prose writer, essayist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1980), one of the most outstanding Polish intellectuals of the 20th century. The publication was released in 2001 in Cracow by Wydawnictwo Literackie as part of the prestigious series “Collected Works of Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz” . <\/p>\n
“Family Europe” is one of Milosz’s most important essayistic works – an autobiographical and intellectual book in which the author draws his spiritual map of the Old Continent. It was first published in 1959 in Paris by the Literary Institute as the 50th volume of the legendary “Library of Culture” . Milosz writes about his roots, growing up in the interwar period, the wartime apocalypse, as well as his struggle with the communist reality after 1945. <\/p>\n
The “Family Europe” of the title is not a geographical, but a metaphorical space – an imaginary continent, described from a “central European” perspective, between East and West. It is a book about Europe as the homeland of the spirit, but also about its dramatic divisions, which the poet felt first-hand when he chose to live in exile. The publication is accompanied by a bibliography and an index. <\/p>\n
Although the 2001 edition is signed in the catalogs as “1st Edition” , the first edition of this book dates back to 1959. The presented copy comes from the prestigious “Collected Works” series, which was published between 1999 and 2005 and was the first such comprehensive and complete edition of the Nobel Prize winner’s works in Poland after 1989. <\/p>\n
It is part of the prestigious “Collected Works” series – the most complete edition of Milosz’s works, including his poetry, prose, essays and translations. The presented copy is clean and preserved in very good condition. It is a must-have for a collector of Milosz’s works, an admirer of his essays and a bibliophile looking for a representative edition of a book that had a huge impact on the perception of Central Europe in the 20th century. <\/p>\n
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Cracow 2001<\/p>\n
Wydawnictwo Literackie (Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz Collected Works series).<\/p>\n
412 s. 21 cm. <\/p>\n
A clean copy.<\/p>\n
Bibliophilic binding made by hand in the bindery of the Polish Antykwariat.<\/p>\n