Proud to be a mammal : essays on war, faith and memory
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Proud to be a mammal : essays on war, faith and memory
(Penguin modern classics, . Central European classics ; autobiography)
Penguin, 2010
- : pbk
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"This collection published with the kind permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux in Penguin classcs 2010."--T.p. verso
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Proud to be a Mammal (1942-97) is Czeslaw Milosz's moving and diverse collection of essays. Among them, he covers his passion for poetry, his love of the Polish language that was so nearly wiped out by the violence of the twentieth century, and his happy childhood. Milosz also includes a letter to his friend in which he voices his concern about the growing indifference to murder and the true value of freedom of thought, as well as a verbal map of Wilno, with each street revealing both a rich local history and intricate, poignant personal memories.
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