Czesław Miłosz
Paperback | Pages: 261 pages Rating: 3.87 | 870 Users | 53 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Dolina Issy |
| ISBN: | 8306024419 (ISBN13: 9788306024418) |
| Edition Language: | Polish |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award Finalist for Translation (1982) |
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Thomas, the child-protagonist of The Issa Valley, is subject to both the contradictions of nature in this severe northern setting and sometimes enchanting, sometimes brutal timbre of village life. There are the deep pine and spruce forests, the grouse and the deer, and the hunter's gun. There is Magdalena, the beautiful mistress of the village priest, whose suicide unleashes her ghost to haunt the parish. There are also the loving grandparents with whom Thomas lives, who provide a balance of the not-quite-Dostoevskian devils that visit the villagers. In the end, Thomas is severed from his childhood and the Issa River, and leaves prepared for adventures beyond his valley. Poetic and richly imagined, The Issa Valley is a masterful work of fiction from one of our greatest living poets.
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| Title | : | Dolina Issy |
| Author | : | Czesław Miłosz |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 261 pages |
| Published | : | 1995 by Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy (first published 1955) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. European Literature. Polish Literature. Cultural. Poland. Classics. Literature |
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Ratings: 3.87 From 870 Users | 53 ReviewsColumn Regarding Books Dolina Issy
The Issa Valley contains a wonderful connection of anecdotes and stories about village life in Eastern Poland and Lithuanian during the interwar period. It has the charm and sunny mood that reminds one of Alphonse Daudets delightful collection about Arles, Lettres de Mon Moulin. Unfortunately, I think Daudet possesses a greater skill that allows his book to touch readers lacking personal familiarity with the region. Milosz's book will be a great delight to those who know Lithuania. Add two starsAmazing, enjoyable read :)
First, I have to praise the wonderful translation of Mr. Louis Iribarne. It's not easy to translate someone like Milosz. It is amazing how novels written by poets are still good when the contrary is, in most cases, totally opposite. Milosz's novel is a joy to read, funny, thougthful and full of memorable characters and situations. Somewhat slow pacing, the novel follows the childhood of Thomas until the age of 14, spent amongst the villages of the Issa Valley, in Lithuanian territory. Poland's
Description: Thomas, the child-protagonist of The Issa Valley, is subject to both the contradictions of nature in this severe northern setting and sometimes enchanting, sometimes brutal timbre of village life. There are the deep pine and spruce forests, the grouse and the deer, and the hunter's gun. There is Magdalena, the beautiful mistress of the village priest, whose suicide unleashes her ghost to haunt the parish. There are also the loving grandparents with whom Thomas lives, who provide a
A sample of Milosz's writing is far better than any review I could come up with."Tinkling bells, a snorting horse, the sleigh-runner's noiseless glide, and a white landscape embroidered with tracks. The wobbly square denoted a hare: the elongated one, a hare on the run. A fox track - neatly aligned, one paw behind the other - ran straight up a knoll, up to where the snow scintillated in the sun, before disappearing in a birch wood bathed in violet. Bird tracks were the easiest to spot: three
I read this novel for my Senior Symposium class. I enjoyed this one! There were so many themes and underlying concepts that really made me think. I had to analyze 6 chapters for a presentation I was doing and I actually enjoyed the prep for it! The deeper I read into it, the more pleasure I got and the more understanding I got from it. Milosz is a great writer and he is quickly becoming one of my favorites.
Although I have made no systematic study of the matter, I must ask myself once again why it is that poetry written by novelists invariably triggers my gag reflex, whereas novels written by poets are well worth reading? With no particular effort the names Dickey, Kinnell, Carlos Williams, Cummings, Bobrowski, Rilke, Daumal, Soupault and now Miłosz come to mind - poets who have written novels that were at least enjoyable and, in some cases, much more than that. I don't know (though I has me
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