Visions from San Francisco Bay

by Czeslaw Milosz, Richard Lourie (Translator)

Overview

Interrelated essays by the Nobel Laureate on his adopted home of California, which Lewis Hyde, writing in The 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."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374517632
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	07/01/1983
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	968,312
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

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).