The Nobel laureate’s unfinished science fiction novel—available in English for the first time ever
Awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1980, Czeslaw Milosz was one of the twentieth century’s most esteemed poets and essayists. This outstanding translation of his only hitherto unavailable work is classic Milosz and a necessary companion volume for scholars and general readers seeking a deeper understanding of his themes. Written in the 1970s and published posthumously in Polish in 2012, Milosz’s deliberately unfinished novel is set in a dystopian future where hierarchy, patriarchy, and religion no longer exist. Echoing the structure of The Captive Mind and written in an experimental, postmodern style, Milosz’s sole work of science fiction follows four individuals: Karel, a disaffected young rebel; Lino, an astronaut who abandons his life of privilege; Petro, a cardinal racked with doubt; and Ephraim, a potential prophet in exile.
- ISBN10 0300214251
- ISBN13 9780300214253
- Publish Date 7 March 2017 (first published 10 January 2017)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 December 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 184
- Language English