Visions from San Francisco Bay
by Milosz, Czeslaw; Lourie, RichardFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1983-07-01
Publisher(s): Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Summary
Interrelated essays by the Nobel Laureate on his adopted home of California, which Lewis Hyde, writing inThe 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."
Author Biography
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).
Table of Contents
| My Intention | 3 | (3) | |
| Where I Am | 6 | (3) | |
| Facing Too Large an Expanse | 9 | (3) | |
| Symbolic Mountains and Forests | 12 | (5) | |
| Remembrance of a Certain Love | 17 | (4) | |
| On the Effects of the Natural Sciences | 21 | (5) | |
| A Short Digression on Woman as a Representative of Nature | 26 | (4) | |
| Religion and Space | 30 | (6) | |
| A Certain Illness Difficult to Name | 36 | (5) | |
| Migrations | 41 | (4) | |
| The Events in California | 45 | (7) | |
| On That Century | 52 | (5) | |
| On the Western | 57 | (5) | |
| I and They | 62 | (4) | |
| The Image of the Beast | 66 | (4) | |
| What Is Mine? | 70 | (4) | |
| On the Turmoil of Many Religions | 74 | (7) | |
| On Catholicism | 81 | (6) | |
| Carmel | 87 | (8) | |
| To Robinson Jeffers | 95 | (2) | |
| Sex Provided | 97 | (6) | |
| On Censorship | 103 | (11) | |
| The Agony of the West | 114 | (8) | |
| The Formless and the New | 122 | (10) | |
| The Evangelical Emissary | 132 | (4) | |
| Henry Miller | 136 | (5) | |
| I, Motor, Earth | 141 | (8) | |
| On Virtue | 149 | (11) | |
| The Dance of Death and Human Inequality | 160 | (12) | |
| Essay in Which the Author Confesses That He Is on the Side of Man, for Lack of Anything Better | 172 | (12) | |
| The Rebirth of Utopia: Herbert Marcuse | 184 | (14) | |
| Emigration to America: A Summing Up | 198 |
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