| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
xi, 208 pages ; 18 cm |
| Contents |
Road-side dog -- Narrow-minded -- Eyes -- Without control -- A search -- Not mine -- The last judgment -- Anima -- Old people -- Is awareness sufficient? -- In the place of the Creator -- Meanwhile and make-believe -- Embarrassing -- Feeling from inside -- To sing gods and heroes -- Grateful -- Acts and grace -- Quotation -- Theology, poetry -- Discreet charm of nihilism -- A flaw -- Childishness -- Dislike -- Alexandria -- In a landscape -- Somebody different -- The past -- Unmanly -- Poetry's sex -- Power of speech -- Dresses -- Salvation and damnation -- Pursuing a goal -- A pact -- Tropics -- Pelicans -- A ball -- Those fantasies -- Inserting a meaning -- Leaning into -- A warning -- How it will be -- Our community -- Warmth -- That -- A discovery -- Future -- Labyrinth -- A country of dreams -- Hollywood -- Milder -- A Polish poet -- Distillation -- Learning -- Is it so? -- A goal -- The novel -- Melodrama -- A fairy tale -- A desire -- Guilt -- Monologues -- In Africa -- Longings -- To wash -- My ideal -- Dates -- I saw -- If only -- Decency -- It appears -- 85 years -- The language -- Profit -- Falling in love -- But -- Contrast -- The complaint of a classic -- What a fate -- Reverse telescope -- Waterning can -- A wanderer -- Again -- In that city -- You don't know -- O! -- From my dentist's window -- Autumn -- Where does it come from? -- A castle from a dream -- A little treatise on colors -- Tanglewood -- A strategy -- The law of the earth -- In her diary -- Beyond my strength -- Why religion? -- Pity -- Helene -- Helen's religion -- Yokimura -- America -- Why do I let my subjects to others -- A banner -- River basins -- The edge of the continent -- Fleas -- Archaeology -- Mrs. Darwin -- One life -- Chur-chu-rah -- Transmission of acquired traits -- Carrying a splinter -- A certain poet -- Father's worries -- Oeuvre -- Among people -- Christopher Robin -- Beautiful girl -- Palm reading -- Husband and wife -- Alastor -- A historian's worries -- Tale of a hero -- On a desert island -- A red umbrella -- The secret of cats -- Coming unglued -- Taboo -- Olympians' games -- Less and less confessions -- A priest and casanova -- Dictionary -- Love of knowledge -- Tale of a convert -- A philosopher -- In praise of inequality -- Inside and outside -- Be like others -- A key -- Ancestors -- Rivers. |
| Summary |
I went on a journey to acquaint myself with my province, in a two-horse wagon with a lot of fodder and a tin bucket rattling in the back. The bucket was required for the horses to drink from. I traveled through a country of hilts and pine groves that gave way to stretches of forest, where tangles of smoke hovered over the roofs of houses, as if they were on fire, for they were chimneyless cabins; I crossed districts of fields and lakes. It was so interesting to be moving, to give the horses their reins, and wait till, in the next valley, a village slowly appeared, or a park with the white spot of a manor inside it. And always we were barked at by a dog, assiduous in its duty. That was the beginning of the century; this is its end. I have been thinking not only of the people who lived there once but also of the generations of dogs accompanying them in their everyday bustle, and one night -- I don't know where it came from -- in a predawn sleep, that funny and tender phrase composed itself: a road-side dog. |
| Subject |
Miłosz, Czesław -- Translations into English.
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Miłosz, Czesław. (OCoLC)fst00011238
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| Genre/Form |
Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
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| Added Author |
Hass, Robert.
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| Added Title |
Piesek przydrożny. English
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| ISBN |
0374251290 (alk. paper) |
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9780374251291 (alk. paper) |
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