Research Catalog

Title

Miłosz and the problem of evil / Łukasz Tischner ; translated from the Polish by Stanley Bill.

Author

Tischner, Łukasz, 1968-

Publication

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bill, Stanley,

Description

xvii, 248 pages; 23 cm

Summary

While scholars have chronicled Czesław Miłosz{u2019}s engagement with religious belief, no previous book-length treatment has focused on his struggles with theodicy in both poetry and thought. Miłosz wrestled with the problem of believing in a just God given the powerful evidence to the contrary in the natural world as he observed it and in the horrors of World War II and its aftermath in Poland. Rather than attempt to survey Miłosz{u2019}s vast oeuvre, Łukasz Tischner focuses on several key works{u2014}The Land of Ulro, The World, The Issa Valley, A Treatise on Morals, A Treatise on Poetry, and From the Rising of the Sun{u2014}carefully tracing the development of Miłosz{u2019}s moral arguments, especially in relation to the key texts that influenced him, among them the Bible, the Gnostic writings, and the works of Blake, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Schopenhauer. The result is a book that examines Miłosz as both a thinker and an artist, shedding new light on all aspects of his oeuvre.

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books.
• Sekrety manichejskich trucizn. English.

Alternative Title

Sekrety manichejskich trucizn.

Subject

• Evil in literature
• Good and evil in literature
• Miłosz, Czesław
• Miłosz, Czesław > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "Originally published in Polish in 2001 by Wydawnictwo Znak, Kraków, under the title Sekrety manichejskich trucizn : Miłosz wobec zła"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prelude: Tainted speech: a guide to The land of Ulro -- Part One. Books of innocence -- The world -- The Issa Valley -- Part Two. Books of experience -- A treatise on morals -- A treatise on poetry -- Part Three. From the rising of the sun; or, Toward the book.

ISBN

• 9780810130821 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0810130823 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780810131774 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0810131773 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780810130838 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015029411

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library