{"product_id":"beginning-with-my-streets-essays-and-recollections-9780374532727","title":"Beginning with My Streets: Essays and Recollections","description":"\u003cp\u003ePolish Wilno--now Vilnius, in Lithuania--was the city of Czeslaw Milosz's youth and adolescence. In this collection of essays and reminiscences, written over a span of three decades, the Nobel Prize-winning poet traces an informal autobiography against the street map of an extraordinary city--a crossroads of languages, cultures, and beliefs--that lies at the very heart of his internal geography. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeginning with My Streets\u003c\/i\u003e, available for the first time in paperback, gathers portraits of the writers Aleksander Wat, Dwight MacDonald, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, as well as the great Swedish scientist Emanuel Swedenborg; an exchange of letters from the 1950s with the novelist and diarist Witold Gombrowicz; and a selection of speeches delivered between 1967 and 1987, including Milosz's Nobel Lecture. These diffuse reckonings, distinguished throughout by the flavor of personality and the aura of place, have a cumulative power--they are quintessential Milosz.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCzeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was the winner of the 1978 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3pl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52196951884050,"sku":"9780374532727","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_571999d8-57b9-4729-99e1-80011d0536f5.jpg?v=1776158783","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/beginning-with-my-streets-essays-and-recollections-9780374532727","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}