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Czeslaw Milosz
To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays Bogdana Carpenter, Madeline G. Levine, eds. New York. Farrar, Straus& Giroux ISBN 0-374-25890-2 IN THE IMPRESSIVE body of Czeslaw Milosz's writings, his essays occupy an important and prominent place. Next to his poetry they represent the second major literary form prevailing in his work, ranging from book-length studies such as The Captive Mind (1951) to the briefest, almost epigrammatic notes in Milosz's ABC's (1997; see WLT 73:1, p. 177). Scattered among many volumes of his prose, they have now been selected and collected in To Begin Where I Am by two prominent scholars and translators, who have also provided an illuminating introduction. Commenting on his prose works, the editors list "the most diverse genres and styles: sketches, reminiscences, philosophical essays, social and...