by Czeslaw Milosz · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780374526238
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«Road-side Dog» is a collection of essays and poems by Czesław Miłosz, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in paperback (208 pages, in English).
The book brings together poems and short prose in which Miłosz recalls journeys through his native region, with its hills, forests and lakes, and reflects on memory, history and the human condition. The figure of the dog barking at the traveller's passing gives the volume its title and serves as a thread through these pages, where the personal and the contemplative intertwine.
Work originally published in Polish as «Piesek przydrożny» (1997); the English translation is by Robert Hass. Winner of the Nike Literary Award in 1998.
For readers of poetry and literary essay, especially those seeking the work of the Polish writer awarded the Nobel Prize.
Czesław Miłosz was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. He primarily wrote his poetry in Polish. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy called Miłosz a writer who "voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts".
