Ecstatic Pessimist

Czeslaw Milosz, Poet of Catastrophe and Hope

By:

Peter Dale Scott

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Paperback / softback

Series:

World Social Change

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Ecstatic Pessimist is a timely book about the Central and Eastern European experience of the mid 20th century, as told through the poetry and experiences of Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Laureate for literature, who wrote on the horrors of war and the human experience. Written by a colleague and friend of the poet, it is part literary criticism and part memoir. This biography/memoir of Czesław Miłosz is a first hand account of the poet’s life and his relationship to the author, beginning in the 1960s. Milosz was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy called Miłosz a writer who "voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts".

Author Biography:

Peter Dale Scott taught at Sedbergh School and McGill University before joining the Canadian Department of External Affairs and the Canadian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland. Returning to academic life Peter Dale Scott taught at the University of California for over thirty years. Books by Peter Dale Scott include The War Conspiracy: The Secret Road to the Second Indochina War (1972), Crime and Cover-Up: The CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate Connection (1977), Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1993) and Deep Politics II: Essays on Oswald, Mexico, and Cuba (1996), Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (1998), Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina (2003), The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America (2008) and American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan (2010)

Release date Australia

March 3rd, 2023

Author

Peter Dale Scott

Series

World Social Change

Pages

370

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Dimensions

151x229x20

ISBN-13

9781538172445

Product ID

35989549

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