It is not by chance that the great Lithuanian poet Tomas Venclova's only book of poetry published in English appeared with a laudatory introduction by Nobel Laureate Josef Brodsky and concludes with a dialogue between Venclova and Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz. Forms of Hope is a collection of Venclova's literary/political essays and lectures on post-World War II Eastern European cultural matters. Secretly, the book becomes a great moral document, and one of the keys to understanding postwar Europe, with some gentle religious implications. Venclova's work is almost a parable instructing us on the value of mankind and the literary arts.
Exiled from Soviet Lithuania in 1977, Venclova has found his way to Yale and Harvard, where he is a professor of Slavic studies. Some of these essays originally appeared in New York Review of Books and New Republic.
Exiled from Soviet Lithuania in 1977, Venclova has found his way to Yale and Harvard, where he is a professor of Slavic studies. Some of these essays originally appeared in New York Review of Books and New Republic.
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