For For readers interested in Merton's friendship with Czeslaw Milosz; a specialist's volume of letters, not a first book.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
2 of 5worth a look
For the researcher
4 of 5important
Difficulty
3 of 5demanding
A ten-year correspondence with Czeslaw Milosz on faith, Communism, nature and literature.
How it proceeds
Philosophic3 of 5
Scriptural0 of 5
Experiential3 of 5
Sociological3 of 5
Historical2 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
In 1958 Merton wrote to the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz about The Captive Mind, beginning a correspondence that lasted until his death; the two differed over Communism and the natural world and shared their thoughts on literature and the spiritual search (177 pages). Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1997, edited by Robert Faggen.
