Sometimes authors, even the most lauded of them, do not publish the books that they write. That doesn’t always mean that their words remain lost forever. Though Czesław Miłosz has been dead for over a decade now, Yale University Press has resurrected one of his long buried manuscripts.
Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004) was a Polish writer and poet who survived two world wars – he helped ferry several Jews out of Nazi territories – as well as a chillier conflict. He defected from Communist Poland in 1951 and made his way to the United States where he worked as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and continued his writing. He won a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980. With his experience and renown, Miłosz could have published any book that he wanted.
But not all novels need an audience.
Between 1968 and 1971, Miłosz worked on a science fiction novel…
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