Czesław Miłosz
Czesław Miłosz (, also , ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) 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, ...
, a Polish and American poet, prose writer, translator and diplomat. It was first published in 1994. An English translation by Robert Hass, ''Facing the River'', was published in 1995 by
Ecco Press
Ecco is a New York-based publishing imprint of HarperCollins. It was founded in 1971 by Daniel Halpern as an independent publishing company; Publishers Weekly described it as "one of America's best-known literary houses." In 1999 Ecco was acquire ...
. The main themes of the collection are old age and reminiscences of the author's pre-war youth in rural Lithuania. The river of the title is the
Nevėžis
The Nevėžis () is the sixth longest river in Lithuania and one of the main tributaries of the Nemunas. Its length is , and it flows only within the geographical confines of Lithuania.Šeteniai where Miłosz grew up. His 1955 novel '' The Issa Valley'' (later adapted into film) was named for the same place.
Partial contents
* 'At A Certain Age'
* 'Biography of an Artist'
* 'Realism'
* 'One More Contradiction'
* 'A Human Fly'
* 'A Polka-Dot Dress'
* 'Plato's Dialogues'