Striving towards being

the letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz

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Striving towards being

the letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz

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In 1958 Thomas Merton wrote an admiring letter to Czeslaw Milosz about his seminal work The Captive Mind. Milosz replied and thus began an animated correspondence which lasted until Merton's death in 1968. During this highly productive decade, Merton continued, a Trappist, to write about nonviolence and the monastic life. Milosz, meanwhile, was writing influential essays and translating the poetry of Aleksander Wat and Anna Swir.

In this dynamic correspondence, Milosz and Merton differ in their views of the role of Communism, share thoughts about the power of literature, and contrast their views on the natural world. As different as Milosz and Merton were, they found common ground in their spiritual search and in a desire to understand the human race. A memorial to a great friendship between two of this century's celebrated men of letter, Striving Towards Being is a testament to the examined life.

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2003, Wydawn. Znak
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Striving towards being: the letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz
1997, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz
December 1996, Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
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Includes bibliographical references.

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Dewey Decimal Class
271/.12502
Library of Congress
BX4705.M4884 A4 1997

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Pagination
xii, 177 p. ;
Number of pages
177

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OL985782M
Internet Archive
strivingtowardsb00mert
ISBN 10
0374271003
LCCN
96023827
Library Thing
578351
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223062

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