Vilnius: A Personal History is the history of the amazing Lithuanian city written by the great poet most qualified to write about it. This book includes a dialogue between the author and Nobel Prize laureate Czeslaw Milosz about the city. An absolutely indispensable work on the city that produced John Gielgud, Bernard Berenson and the Budapest String Quartet.
“Poignant and eloquent work, merging literary criticism and moral insight. One believes that Mandelstam and Babel might have rejoiced in it.”—Harold Bloom
“Tomas Venclova belongs to a distinguished line of late-20th-century poets, one which includes Czeslaw Milosz, Joseph Brodsky, and Adam Zagajewski.”—Sven Birkerts, Harvard Review
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TOMAS VENCLOVA was born in Vilnius in 1937. He is a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Yale, and has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Columbia, and Berkeley. His books include Forms of Hope (Sheep Meadow Press)
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